From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] telephony: ijx: buffer overflow in ixj_write_cid()
Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2012 19:10:47 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121203191047.GA13339@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121203190512.GA9273@elgon.mountain>
On Mon, Dec 03, 2012 at 10:05:12PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> We get this from user space and nothing has been done to ensure that
> these strings are NUL terminated.
>
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Reported-by: Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
> ---
> This driver is going to be removed in the 3.8 kernel but the fix is
> needed for 3.7 and older.
Ok, I'll queue it up for 3.7.1 and older stable kernels at that time, as
it's too late for 3.7-final right now, especially as no one is even
using this code :)
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-03 19:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-03 19:05 [patch] telephony: ijx: buffer overflow in ixj_write_cid() Dan Carpenter
2012-12-03 19:10 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2012-12-05 1:30 ` Chen Gang
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