[PATCH] fbdev: Detect integer underflow at "struct fbcon_ops"->clear_margins.

Tetsuo Handa penguin-kernel at i-love.sakura.ne.jp
Wed Jul 15 00:24:06 UTC 2020


On 2020/07/15 2:15, George Kennedy wrote:
> Can you try the a.out built from the original Syzkaller modified repro C program? It walks 0-7 through xres and yres of the fb_var_screeninfo struct.

I'm not familiar with exploit code. What do you want to explain via this program?

>   struct fb_var_screeninfo *varp = (struct fb_var_screeninfo *)0x200001c0;
>   struct fb_var_screeninfo *starting_varp = malloc(sizeof(struct fb_var_screeninfo *));

>     memcpy(starting_varp, varp, sizeof(struct fb_var_screeninfo));

>             memcpy(varp, starting_varp, sizeof(struct fb_var_screeninfo));

At least, I suspect there is a memory corruption bug in this program
because of malloc()ing only sizeof(struct fb_var_screeninfo *) bytes.



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