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From: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-dvb-maintainer@linuxtv.org
Subject: [PATCH 16/37] dvb: dst: Fix possible buffer overflow
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2005 03:14:06 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <436723CE.9060803@m1k.net> (raw)

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From: Manu Abraham <manu@linuxtv.org>

 - Fixes a possible buffer overflow due to reading more than 8 bytes into an 8 byte long array

Thanks to Perceval Anichini <perceval.anichini@streamvision.fr> for pointing out the bug.

Signed-off-by: Manu Abraham <manu@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>

 drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dst_ca.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- linux-2.6.14-git3.orig/drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dst_ca.c
+++ linux-2.6.14-git3/drivers/media/dvb/bt8xx/dst_ca.c
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@
 	int i;
 	static u8 slot_command[8] = {0x00, 0x05, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0xff};
 
-	u8 *slot_info = state->rxbuffer;
+	u8 *slot_info = state->messages;
 
 	put_checksum(&slot_command[0], 7);
 	if ((dst_put_ci(state, slot_command, sizeof (slot_command), slot_info, GET_REPLY)) < 0) {



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