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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 22:29:54 +0800
From: Eugene Teo <eugene@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Josh Bressers <bressers@...hat.com>, coley <coley@...re.org>
Subject: Re: kernel: ALSA: caiaq - Fix possible string-buffer
overflow
On 02/16/2011 09:48 PM, Josh Bressers wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> Reported by rafa@...infosecurity.com, "Use strlcpy() to assure not to
>> overflow the string array sizes by too long USB device name string."
>>
>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=eaae55dac6b64c0616046436b294e69fc5311581
>>
>> Just FYI, I'm not requesting a CVE name for this as it only affects
>> Native Instruments USB audio devices with very long device name which I
>> think is unlikely.
>>
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=677881
>>
>
> I'm assigning this CVE-2011-0712.
>
> With the recent research about having a smartphone impersonate various USB
> devices, I think this attack is now more plausible than in previous years.
Actually this is hardware-specific, and the strcpys are in the
initialisation part of the code.
Eugene
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