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audit: fix out-of-bounds read in audit_compare_dname_path()
commit 4540f1d upstream. When a watch on dir=/ is combined with an fsnotify event for a single-character name directly under / (e.g., creating /a), an out-of-bounds read can occur in audit_compare_dname_path(). The helper parent_len() returns 1 for "/". In audit_compare_dname_path(), when parentlen equals the full path length (1), the code sets p = path + 1 and pathlen = 1 - 1 = 0. The subsequent loop then dereferences p[pathlen - 1] (i.e., p[-1]), causing an out-of-bounds read. Fix this by adding a pathlen > 0 check to the while loop condition to prevent the out-of-bounds access. Cc: [email protected] Fixes: e92eebb ("audit: fix suffixed '/' filename matching") Reported-by: Stanislav Fort <[email protected]> Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Stanislav Fort <[email protected]> [PM: subject tweak, sign-off email fixes] Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
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kernel/auditfilter.c

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@@ -1326,7 +1326,7 @@ int audit_compare_dname_path(const struct qstr *dname, const char *path, int par
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/* handle trailing slashes */
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pathlen -= parentlen;
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while (p[pathlen - 1] == '/')
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while (pathlen > 0 && p[pathlen - 1] == '/')
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pathlen--;
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if (pathlen != dlen)

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