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hex2bin: fix access beyond string end
authorMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Wed, 27 Apr 2022 15:26:40 +0000 (11:26 -0400)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 9 May 2022 07:14:30 +0000 (09:14 +0200)
commitda762665623d8d2d732cbcd5d8d4b39fd9c605ad
tree55b22691b6feca85a94c9964ad87ca186527c6b6
parent73e68ac6321eba26dd415a2f7d8b7420ec956d1a
hex2bin: fix access beyond string end

commit 64d6e3ae2c2acb89be32685a0d9c3c8ada5094e4 upstream.

If we pass too short string to "hex2bin" (and the string size without
the terminating NUL character is even), "hex2bin" reads one byte after
the terminating NUL character.  This patch fixes it.

Note that hex_to_bin returns -1 on error and hex2bin return -EINVAL on
error - so we can't just return the variable "hi" or "lo" on error.
This inconsistency may be fixed in the next merge window, but for the
purpose of fixing this bug, we just preserve the existing behavior and
return -1 and -EINVAL.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>
Fixes: 4ea57775e6ee ("lib: add error checking to hex2bin")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
lib/hexdump.c