The patch titled
old buffer overflow in moxa driver
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
old-buffer-overflow-in-moxa-driver.patch
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Subject: old buffer overflow in moxa driver
From: dann frazier <dannf@xxxxxx>
I noticed that the moxa input checking security bug described by
CVE-2005-0504 appears to remain unfixed upstream.
The issue is described here:
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-0504
Debian has been shipping the following patch from Andres Salomon.
(akpm: it's a privileged operation)
Signed-off-by: dann frazier <dannf@xxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/char/moxa.c | 8 ++++++--
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff -puN drivers/char/moxa.c~old-buffer-overflow-in-moxa-driver drivers/char/moxa.c
--- a/drivers/char/moxa.c~old-buffer-overflow-in-moxa-driver
+++ a/drivers/char/moxa.c
@@ -1582,7 +1582,7 @@ copy:
if(copy_from_user(&dltmp, argp, sizeof(struct dl_str)))
return -EFAULT;
- if(dltmp.cardno < 0 || dltmp.cardno >= MAX_BOARDS)
+ if(dltmp.cardno < 0 || dltmp.cardno >= MAX_BOARDS || dltmp.len < 0)
return -EINVAL;
switch(cmd)
@@ -2529,6 +2529,8 @@ static int moxaloadbios(int cardno, unsi
void __iomem *baseAddr;
int i;
+ if(len < 0 || len > sizeof(moxaBuff))
+ return -EINVAL;
if(copy_from_user(moxaBuff, tmp, len))
return -EFAULT;
baseAddr = moxa_boards[cardno].basemem;
@@ -2576,7 +2578,7 @@ static int moxaload320b(int cardno, unsi
void __iomem *baseAddr;
int i;
- if(len > sizeof(moxaBuff))
+ if(len < 0 || len > sizeof(moxaBuff))
return -EINVAL;
if(copy_from_user(moxaBuff, tmp, len))
return -EFAULT;
@@ -2596,6 +2598,8 @@ static int moxaloadcode(int cardno, unsi
void __iomem *baseAddr, *ofsAddr;
int retval, port, i;
+ if(len < 0 || len > sizeof(moxaBuff))
+ return -EINVAL;
if(copy_from_user(moxaBuff, tmp, len))
return -EFAULT;
baseAddr = moxa_boards[cardno].basemem;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from dannf@xxxxxx are
old-buffer-overflow-in-moxa-driver.patch
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