From: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> A HID device could send a malicious feature report that would cause the ntrig HID driver to trigger a NULL dereference during initialization: [57383.031190] usb 3-1: New USB device found, idVendor=1b96, idProduct=0001 ... [57383.315193] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000030 [57383.315308] IP: [<ffffffffa08102de>] ntrig_probe+0x25e/0x420 [hid_ntrig] CVE-2013-2896 Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx --- drivers/hid/hid-ntrig.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-ntrig.c b/drivers/hid/hid-ntrig.c index ef95102..5482156 100644 --- a/drivers/hid/hid-ntrig.c +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-ntrig.c @@ -115,7 +115,8 @@ static inline int ntrig_get_mode(struct hid_device *hdev) struct hid_report *report = hdev->report_enum[HID_FEATURE_REPORT]. report_id_hash[0x0d]; - if (!report) + if (!report || report->maxfield < 1 || + report->field[0]->report_count < 1) return -EINVAL; hid_hw_request(hdev, report, HID_REQ_GET_REPORT); -- 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