This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled uml: check length in exitcode_proc_write() 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: uml-check-length-in-exitcode_proc_write.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 201f99f170df14ba52ea4c52847779042b7a623b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 22:06:04 +0300 Subject: uml: check length in exitcode_proc_write() From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 201f99f170df14ba52ea4c52847779042b7a623b upstream. We don't cap the size of buffer from the user so we could write past the end of the array here. Only root can write to this file. Reported-by: Nico Golde <nico@xxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Fabian Yamaguchi <fabs@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- arch/um/kernel/exitcode.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/arch/um/kernel/exitcode.c +++ b/arch/um/kernel/exitcode.c @@ -40,9 +40,11 @@ static ssize_t exitcode_proc_write(struc const char __user *buffer, size_t count, loff_t *pos) { char *end, buf[sizeof("nnnnn\0")]; + size_t size; int tmp; - if (copy_from_user(buf, buffer, count)) + size = min(count, sizeof(buf)); + if (copy_from_user(buf, buffer, size)) return -EFAULT; tmp = simple_strtol(buf, &end, 0); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.11/staging-wlags49_h2-buffer-overflow-setting-station-name.patch queue-3.11/staging-ozwpan-prevent-overflow-in-oz_cdev_write.patch queue-3.11/aacraid-missing-capable-check-in-compat-ioctl.patch queue-3.11/staging-bcm-info-leak-in-ioctl.patch queue-3.11/uml-check-length-in-exitcode_proc_write.patch queue-3.11/staging-sb105x-info-leak-in-mp_get_count.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