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author | Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com> | 2010-09-27 12:30:28 -0400 |
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committer | Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> | 2010-12-14 23:40:18 +0100 |
commit | eb015d662b1831e61ce9610da234565f8349311b (patch) | |
tree | f07493e5e2e1da26a628c7b4a2d2c8cc10dea154 /kernel/workqueue.c | |
parent | 6efba844d4ad8783c46ee2477344bfd87f737325 (diff) |
Fix pktcdvd ioctl dev_minor range check
Upstream 252a52aa4fa22a668f019e55b3aac3ff71ec1c29
The PKT_CTRL_CMD_STATUS device ioctl retrieves a pointer to a
pktcdvd_device from the global pkt_devs array. The index into this
array is provided directly by the user and is a signed integer, so the
comparison to ensure that it falls within the bounds of this array will
fail when provided with a negative index.
This can be used to read arbitrary kernel memory or cause a crash due to
an invalid pointer dereference. This can be exploited by users with
permission to open /dev/pktcdvd/control (on many distributions, this is
readable by group "cdrom").
Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <dan.j.rosenberg@gmail.com>
[ Rather than add a cast, just make the function take the right type -Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
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