This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled [media] cx24116: fix a buffer overflow when checking userspace params to the 3.14-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: cx24116-fix-a-buffer-overflow-when-checking-userspace-params.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 1fa2337a315a2448c5434f41e00d56b01a22283c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2015 18:51:17 -0300 Subject: [media] cx24116: fix a buffer overflow when checking userspace params From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 1fa2337a315a2448c5434f41e00d56b01a22283c upstream. The maximum size for a DiSEqC command is 6, according to the userspace API. However, the code allows to write up much more values: drivers/media/dvb-frontends/cx24116.c:983 cx24116_send_diseqc_msg() error: buffer overflow 'd->msg' 6 <= 23 Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/media/dvb-frontends/cx24116.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/cx24116.c +++ b/drivers/media/dvb-frontends/cx24116.c @@ -963,6 +963,10 @@ static int cx24116_send_diseqc_msg(struc struct cx24116_state *state = fe->demodulator_priv; int i, ret; + /* Validate length */ + if (d->msg_len > sizeof(d->msg)) + return -EINVAL; + /* Dump DiSEqC message */ if (debug) { printk(KERN_INFO "cx24116: %s(", __func__); @@ -974,10 +978,6 @@ static int cx24116_send_diseqc_msg(struc printk(") toneburst=%d\n", toneburst); } - /* Validate length */ - if (d->msg_len > (CX24116_ARGLEN - CX24116_DISEQC_MSGOFS)) - return -EINVAL; - /* DiSEqC message */ for (i = 0; i < d->msg_len; i++) state->dsec_cmd.args[CX24116_DISEQC_MSGOFS + i] = d->msg[i]; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from mchehab@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.14/cx24116-fix-a-buffer-overflow-when-checking-userspace-params.patch queue-3.14/saa7164-fix-querycap-warning.patch queue-3.14/s5h1420-fix-a-buffer-overflow-when-checking-userspace-params.patch queue-3.14/cx24117-fix-a-buffer-overflow-when-checking-userspace-params.patch queue-3.14/af9013-don-t-accept-invalid-bandwidth.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