[lvc-project] [PATCH] platform/x86: dell-wmi-sysman: Avoid buffer overflow in current_password_store()

Vladimir Moskovkin Vladimir.Moskovkin at kaspersky.com
Wed May 14 15:12:55 MSK 2025


If the 'buf' array received from the user contains an empty string, the
'length' variable will be zero. Accessing the 'buf' array element with
index 'length - 1' will result in a buffer overflow.

Add a check for an empty string.

Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.

Fixes: e8a60aa7404b ("platform/x86: Introduce support for Systems Management Driver over WMI for Dell Systems")
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Moskovkin <Vladimir.Moskovkin at kaspersky.com>
---
 drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-wmi-sysman/passobj-attributes.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-wmi-sysman/passobj-attributes.c b/drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-wmi-sysman/passobj-attributes.c
index 230e6ee96636..d8f1bf5e58a0 100644
--- a/drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-wmi-sysman/passobj-attributes.c
+++ b/drivers/platform/x86/dell/dell-wmi-sysman/passobj-attributes.c
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ static ssize_t current_password_store(struct kobject *kobj,
 	int length;
 
 	length = strlen(buf);
-	if (buf[length-1] == '\n')
+	if (length && buf[length - 1] == '\n')
 		length--;
 
 	/* firmware does verifiation of min/max password length,
-- 
2.25.1




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