This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
USB: serial: fix potential heap buffer overflow
to my usb git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git
in the usb-linus branch.
The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree
(usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)
The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the
next -rc kernel release.
If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.
>From 5654699fb38512bdbfc0f892ce54fce75bdc2bab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 11:55:19 +0200
Subject: USB: serial: fix potential heap buffer overflow
Make sure to verify the number of ports requested by subdriver to avoid
writing beyond the end of fixed-size array in interface data.
The current usb-serial implementation is limited to eight ports per
interface but failed to verify that the number of ports requested by a
subdriver (which could have been determined from device descriptors) did
not exceed this limit.
Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c b/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c
index eb0e8c6a8682..475723c006f9 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c
@@ -862,6 +862,11 @@ static int usb_serial_probe(struct usb_interface *interface,
num_ports = type->num_ports;
}
+ if (num_ports > MAX_NUM_PORTS) {
+ dev_warn(ddev, "too many ports requested: %d\n", num_ports);
+ num_ports = MAX_NUM_PORTS;
+ }
+
serial->num_ports = num_ports;
serial->num_bulk_in = num_bulk_in;
serial->num_bulk_out = num_bulk_out;
--
2.1.0
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