This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled HID: pantherlord: validate output report details to the 3.11-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: hid-pantherlord-validate-output-report-details.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.11 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 412f30105ec6735224535791eed5cdc02888ecb4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 22:30:49 +0200 Subject: HID: pantherlord: validate output report details From: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 412f30105ec6735224535791eed5cdc02888ecb4 upstream. A HID device could send a malicious output report that would cause the pantherlord HID driver to write beyond the output report allocation during initialization, causing a heap overflow: [ 310.939483] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=0e8f, idProduct=0003 ... [ 315.980774] BUG kmalloc-192 (Tainted: G W ): Redzone overwritten CVE-2013-2892 Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/hid/hid-pl.c | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/hid/hid-pl.c +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-pl.c @@ -132,8 +132,14 @@ static int plff_init(struct hid_device * strong = &report->field[0]->value[2]; weak = &report->field[0]->value[3]; debug("detected single-field device"); - } else if (report->maxfield >= 4 && report->field[0]->maxusage == 1 && - report->field[0]->usage[0].hid == (HID_UP_LED | 0x43)) { + } else if (report->field[0]->maxusage == 1 && + report->field[0]->usage[0].hid == + (HID_UP_LED | 0x43) && + report->maxfield >= 4 && + report->field[0]->report_count >= 1 && + report->field[1]->report_count >= 1 && + report->field[2]->report_count >= 1 && + report->field[3]->report_count >= 1) { report->field[0]->value[0] = 0x00; report->field[1]->value[0] = 0x00; strong = &report->field[2]->value[0]; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.11/hid-pantherlord-validate-output-report-details.patch queue-3.11/crypto-api-fix-race-condition-in-larval-lookup.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html