[Xen-devel] [PATCH 23/23] libxc: Better range check in xc_dom_alloc_segment

[Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 tools/libxc/xc_dom_core.c |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/libxc/xc_dom_core.c b/tools/libxc/xc_dom_core.c
index 5f188c1..3df7171 100644
--- a/tools/libxc/xc_dom_core.c
+++ b/tools/libxc/xc_dom_core.c
@@ -511,7 +511,8 @@ 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,
-- 
1.7.2.5


_______________________________________________
Xen-devel mailing list
Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel