From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Carpenter Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2013 06:41:43 +0000 Subject: [patch] staging: cxt1e1: buffer overflow in do_del_chan() Message-Id: <20130124064143.GC5611@elgon.mountain> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org If we don't restrict "cp.channum" to 3 digits then the sprintf() will overflow. I've added a check and changed the sprintf() to snprintf(). Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter diff --git a/drivers/staging/cxt1e1/linux.c b/drivers/staging/cxt1e1/linux.c index 0ff2865..a829b62 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/cxt1e1/linux.c +++ b/drivers/staging/cxt1e1/linux.c @@ -773,7 +773,9 @@ do_del_chan (struct net_device * musycc_dev, void *data) if (copy_from_user (&cp, data, sizeof (struct sbecom_chan_param))) return -EFAULT; - sprintf (buf, CHANNAME "%d", cp.channum); + if (cp.channum > 999) + return -EINVAL; + snprintf (buf, sizeof(buf), CHANNAME "%d", cp.channum); if (!(dev = dev_get_by_name (&init_net, buf))) return -ENOENT; dev_put (dev);