3.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 875b4e3763dbc941f15143dd1a18d10bb0be303b upstream. A HID device could send a malicious feature report that would cause the ntrig HID driver to trigger a NULL dereference during initialization: [57383.031190] usb 3-1: New USB device found, idVendor=1b96, idProduct=0001 ... [57383.315193] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000030 [57383.315308] IP: [<ffffffffa08102de>] ntrig_probe+0x25e/0x420 [hid_ntrig] CVE-2013-2896 Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Rafi Rubin <rafi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/hid/hid-ntrig.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/hid/hid-ntrig.c +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-ntrig.c @@ -115,7 +115,8 @@ static inline int ntrig_get_mode(struct struct hid_report *report = hdev->report_enum[HID_FEATURE_REPORT]. report_id_hash[0x0d]; - if (!report) + if (!report || report->maxfield < 1 || + report->field[0]->report_count < 1) return -EINVAL; usbhid_submit_report(hdev, report, USB_DIR_IN); -- 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