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| author | Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> | 2013-05-10 14:48:21 -0700 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2013-06-20 11:58:43 -0700 |
| commit | d2305b5a32d15d0156115c24adcd8ecfa30209c7 (patch) | |
| tree | 3986404124642ce1e4f7f95520a9c47dee6360f2 /drivers | |
| parent | be47c9e70ec3e4687531f29e3d290ef4f9b5ed35 (diff) | |
b43: stop format string leaking into error msgs
commit e0e29b683d6784ef59bbc914eac85a04b650e63c upstream.
The module parameter "fwpostfix" is userspace controllable, unfiltered,
and is used to define the firmware filename. b43_do_request_fw() populates
ctx->errors[] on error, containing the firmware filename. b43err()
parses its arguments as a format string. For systems with b43 hardware,
this could lead to a uid-0 to ring-0 escalation.
CVE-2013-2852
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c index b54c750c9b3..f8c4499cf64 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c @@ -2449,7 +2449,7 @@ static void b43_request_firmware(struct work_struct *work) for (i = 0; i < B43_NR_FWTYPES; i++) { errmsg = ctx->errors[i]; if (strlen(errmsg)) - b43err(dev->wl, errmsg); + b43err(dev->wl, "%s", errmsg); } b43_print_fw_helptext(dev->wl, 1); goto out; |