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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
	stable@vger.kernel.org, Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	"John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Subject: [ 1/7] b43: stop format string leaking into error msgs
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:10:38 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130618160911.904679984@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130618160911.721012782@linuxfoundation.org>

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

3.0-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

commit e0e29b683d6784ef59bbc914eac85a04b650e63c upstream.

The module parameter "fwpostfix" is userspace controllable, unfiltered,
and is used to define the firmware filename. b43_do_request_fw() populates
ctx->errors[] on error, containing the firmware filename. b43err()
parses its arguments as a format string. For systems with b43 hardware,
this could lead to a uid-0 to ring-0 escalation.

CVE-2013-2852

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c
@@ -2309,7 +2309,7 @@ static int b43_request_firmware(struct b
 	for (i = 0; i < B43_NR_FWTYPES; i++) {
 		errmsg = ctx->errors[i];
 		if (strlen(errmsg))
-			b43err(dev->wl, errmsg);
+			b43err(dev->wl, "%s", errmsg);
 	}
 	b43_print_fw_helptext(dev->wl, 1);
 	err = -ENOENT;



  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-18 16:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-18 16:10 [ 0/7] 3.0.83-stable review Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-06-18 16:10 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2013-06-18 16:10 ` [ 2/7] ath9k: Disable PowerSave by default Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-06-18 16:10 ` [ 3/7] drm/i915: prefer VBT modes for SVDO-LVDS over EDID Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-06-18 16:10 ` [ 4/7] swap: avoid read_swap_cache_async() race to deadlock while waiting on discard I/O completion Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-06-18 16:10 ` [ 5/7] mm: migration: add migrate_entry_wait_huge() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-06-18 16:10 ` [ 6/7] x86: Fix typo in kexec register clearing Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-06-18 16:10 ` [ 7/7] ceph: fix statvfs fr_size Greg Kroah-Hartman
2013-06-18 22:00 ` [ 0/7] 3.0.83-stable review Shuah Khan
2013-06-20 10:13 ` Satoru Takeuchi
2013-06-20 16:59   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman

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