The patch below does not apply to the 4.6-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------
>From 785ef73dba6e9fefd2e5dd24546e0efa8698e5cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: James Patrick-Evans <james@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2016 12:40:45 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] [media] airspy: fix error logic during device register
This patch addresses CVE-2016-5400, a local DOS vulnerability caused by
a memory leak in the airspy usb device driver.
The vulnerability is triggered when more than 64 usb devices register
with v4l2 of type VFL_TYPE_SDR or VFL_TYPE_SUBDEV.A badusb device can
emulate 64 of these devices then through continual emulated
connect/disconnect of the 65th device, cause the kernel to run out of
RAM and crash the kernel.
The vulnerability exists in kernel versions from 3.17 to current 4.7.
The memory leak is caused by the probe function of the airspy driver
mishandeling errors and not freeing the corresponding control structures
when an error occours registering the device to v4l2 core.
Signed-off-by: James Patrick-Evans <james@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx # Up to Kernel 3.17
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/airspy/airspy.c b/drivers/media/usb/airspy/airspy.c
index d807d5875f7e..19cd64c95bb8 100644
--- a/drivers/media/usb/airspy/airspy.c
+++ b/drivers/media/usb/airspy/airspy.c
@@ -1072,7 +1072,7 @@ static int airspy_probe(struct usb_interface *intf,
if (ret) {
dev_err(s->dev, "Failed to register as video device (%d)\n",
ret);
- goto err_unregister_v4l2_dev;
+ goto err_free_controls;
}
dev_info(s->dev, "Registered as %s\n",
video_device_node_name(&s->vdev));
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