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authorIan Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>2013-06-14 16:43:19 +0100
committerIan Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>2013-06-14 16:43:19 +0100
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libxc: Better range check in xc_dom_alloc_segment
If seg->pfn is too large, the arithmetic in the range check might overflow, defeating the range check. This is part of the fix to a security issue, XSA-55. Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
-rw-r--r--tools/libxc/xc_dom_core.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/libxc/xc_dom_core.c b/tools/libxc/xc_dom_core.c
index f8d1b08ba8..e79e38d513 100644
--- a/tools/libxc/xc_dom_core.c
+++ b/tools/libxc/xc_dom_core.c
@@ -509,7 +509,8 @@ int xc_dom_alloc_segment(struct xc_dom_image *dom,
seg->vstart = start;
seg->pfn = (seg->vstart - dom->parms.virt_base) / page_size;
- if ( pages > dom->total_pages || /* double test avoids overflow probs */
+ if ( pages > dom->total_pages || /* multiple test avoids overflow probs */
+ seg->pfn > dom->total_pages ||
pages > dom->total_pages - seg->pfn)
{
xc_dom_panic(dom->xch, XC_OUT_OF_MEMORY,