From: Kees Cook <[email protected]> A HID device could send a malicious output report that would cause the steelseries HID driver to write beyond the output report allocation during initialization, causing a heap overflow:
[ 167.981534] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=1038, idProduct=1410 ... [ 182.050547] BUG kmalloc-256 (Tainted: G W ): Redzone overwritten CVE-2013-2891 Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Reviewed-by: Benjamin Tissoires <[email protected]> --- v3: - no changes drivers/hid/hid-steelseries.c | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-steelseries.c b/drivers/hid/hid-steelseries.c index d164911..29f328f 100644 --- a/drivers/hid/hid-steelseries.c +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-steelseries.c @@ -249,6 +249,11 @@ static int steelseries_srws1_probe(struct hid_device *hdev, goto err_free; } + if (!hid_validate_values(hdev, HID_OUTPUT_REPORT, 0, 0, 16)) { + ret = -ENODEV; + goto err_free; + } + ret = hid_hw_start(hdev, HID_CONNECT_DEFAULT); if (ret) { hid_err(hdev, "hw start failed\n"); -- 1.8.3.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
