This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
b43: stop format string leaking into error msgs
to the 3.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
b43-stop-format-string-leaking-into-error-msgs.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From e0e29b683d6784ef59bbc914eac85a04b650e63c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 14:48:21 -0700
Subject: b43: stop format string leaking into error msgs
From: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit e0e29b683d6784ef59bbc914eac85a04b650e63c upstream.
The module parameter "fwpostfix" is userspace controllable, unfiltered,
and is used to define the firmware filename. b43_do_request_fw() populates
ctx->errors[] on error, containing the firmware filename. b43err()
parses its arguments as a format string. For systems with b43 hardware,
this could lead to a uid-0 to ring-0 escalation.
CVE-2013-2852
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c
@@ -2451,7 +2451,7 @@ static void b43_request_firmware(struct
for (i = 0; i < B43_NR_FWTYPES; i++) {
errmsg = ctx->errors[i];
if (strlen(errmsg))
- b43err(dev->wl, errmsg);
+ b43err(dev->wl, "%s", errmsg);
}
b43_print_fw_helptext(dev->wl, 1);
goto out;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.9/b43-stop-format-string-leaking-into-error-msgs.patch
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