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From: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>
To: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sgi-gru: Fix kernel stack buffer overrun
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 18:26:49 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090720232649.GA5009@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200907210008.38990.mb@bu3sch.de>

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:08:38AM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote:
> This patch fixes a kernel stack buffer overrun in the sgi-gru procfs
> interface implementation.
> The "count" parameter to options_write() is user controlled. So this bug
> can be used to write '\0' bytes to almost arbitrary places on the kernel stack.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
> Cc: stable@kernel.org

Acked-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@sgi.com>


Thanks...

--- jack

      reply	other threads:[~2009-07-20 23:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-20 22:08 [PATCH] sgi-gru: Fix kernel stack buffer overrun Michael Buesch
2009-07-20 23:26 ` Jack Steiner [this message]

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