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Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:09:02 -0700
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Eugene Teo <eugene@...hat.com>,
"Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: Re: CVE request - kernel: drm: integer overflow in
drm_mode_dirtyfb_ioctl()
On 01/11/2012 03:50 AM, Eugene Teo wrote:
> There is a potential integer overflow in drm_mode_dirtyfb_ioctl() if
> userspace passes in a large num_clips. The call to kmalloc would
> allocate a small buffer, and the call to fb->funcs->dirty may result in
> a memory corruption.
>
> Reported-by: Haogang Chen <haogangchen@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Xi Wang <xi.wang@...il.com>
>
> Upstream commit:
> http://git.kernel.org/linus/a5cd335165e31db9dbab636fd29895d41da55dd2
Please use CVE-2012-0044 for this issue.
--
-- Kurt Seifried / Red Hat Security Response Team
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