From: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> A HID device could send a malicious output report that would cause the picolcd HID driver to trigger a NULL dereference during attr file writing. CVE-2013-2899 Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx --- drivers/hid/hid-picolcd_core.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-picolcd_core.c b/drivers/hid/hid-picolcd_core.c index b48092d..72bba1e 100644 --- a/drivers/hid/hid-picolcd_core.c +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-picolcd_core.c @@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ static ssize_t picolcd_operation_mode_store(struct device *dev, buf += 10; cnt -= 10; } - if (!report) + if (!report || report->maxfield < 1) return -EINVAL; while (cnt > 0 && (buf[cnt-1] == '\n' || buf[cnt-1] == '\r')) -- 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