From: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> This driver must validate the availability of the HID output report and its size before it can write LED states via buzz_set_leds(). This stops a heap overflow that is possible if a device provides a malicious HID output report: [ 108.171280] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=054c, idProduct=0002 ... [ 117.507877] BUG kmalloc-192 (Not tainted): Redzone overwritten CVE-2013-2890 Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx --- drivers/hid/hid-sony.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-sony.c b/drivers/hid/hid-sony.c index 87fbe29..b987926 100644 --- a/drivers/hid/hid-sony.c +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-sony.c @@ -537,6 +537,10 @@ static int buzz_init(struct hid_device *hdev) drv_data = hid_get_drvdata(hdev); BUG_ON(!(drv_data->quirks & BUZZ_CONTROLLER)); + /* Validate expected report characteristics. */ + if (!hid_validate_report(hdev, HID_OUTPUT_REPORT, 0, 1, 7)) + return -ENODEV; + buzz = kzalloc(sizeof(*buzz), GFP_KERNEL); if (!buzz) { hid_err(hdev, "Insufficient memory, cannot allocate driver data\n"); -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html