grub: add a fix for a possible NULL dereference

This fix removes a possible NULL pointer dereference in grub
networking code. It is a part of a security series [1].

[1] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/grub-devel/2021-03/msg00007.html

(From OE-Core rev: 5e62b476b541d3803e537f2228a264224b72cf81)

Signed-off-by: Marta Rybczynska <marta.rybczynska@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve Sakoman <steve@sakoman.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Marta Rybczynska
2022-02-18 11:05:10 +01:00
committed by Richard Purdie
parent 01eb48b7f5
commit 6b514d38b7
2 changed files with 40 additions and 0 deletions

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@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
From f216a75e884ed5e4e94bf86965000dde51148f94 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Darren Kenny <darren.kenny@oracle.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2020 15:10:26 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] net/net: Fix possible dereference to of a NULL pointer
It is always possible that grub_zalloc() could fail, so we should check for
a NULL return. Otherwise we run the risk of dereferencing a NULL pointer.
Fixes: CID 296221
Signed-off-by: Darren Kenny <darren.kenny@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
Upstream-Status: Backport [https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/commit/?id=03f2515ae0c503406f1a99a2178405049c6555db]
Signed-off-by: Marta Rybczynska <marta.rybczynska@huawei.com>
---
grub-core/net/net.c | 9 +++++++--
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/grub-core/net/net.c b/grub-core/net/net.c
index 38f19df..7c2cdf2 100644
--- a/grub-core/net/net.c
+++ b/grub-core/net/net.c
@@ -86,8 +86,13 @@ grub_net_link_layer_add_address (struct grub_net_card *card,
/* Add sender to cache table. */
if (card->link_layer_table == NULL)
- card->link_layer_table = grub_zalloc (LINK_LAYER_CACHE_SIZE
- * sizeof (card->link_layer_table[0]));
+ {
+ card->link_layer_table = grub_zalloc (LINK_LAYER_CACHE_SIZE
+ * sizeof (card->link_layer_table[0]));
+ if (card->link_layer_table == NULL)
+ return;
+ }
+
entry = &(card->link_layer_table[card->new_ll_entry]);
entry->avail = 1;
grub_memcpy (&entry->ll_address, ll, sizeof (entry->ll_address));

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@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@ SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/grub/grub-${PV}.tar.gz \
file://CVE-2020-25632.patch \
file://CVE-2020-25647.patch \
file://0001-mmap-Fix-memory-leak-when-iterating-over-mapped-memo.patch \
file://0002-net-net-Fix-possible-dereference-to-of-a-NULL-pointe.patch \
"
SRC_URI[md5sum] = "5ce674ca6b2612d8939b9e6abed32934"
SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "f10c85ae3e204dbaec39ae22fa3c5e99f0665417e91c2cb49b7e5031658ba6ea"