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authorDan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>2010-09-28 14:18:20 -0400
committerTakashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>2010-09-28 15:33:16 -0400
commit5591bf07225523600450edd9e6ad258bb877b779 (patch)
treef886a48ec51861e74c79eca3052adeb9646d1534 /README
parente68d3b316ab7b02a074edc4f770e6a746390cb7d (diff)
ALSA: prevent heap corruption in snd_ctl_new()
The snd_ctl_new() function in sound/core/control.c allocates space for a snd_kcontrol struct by performing arithmetic operations on a user-provided size without checking for integer overflow. If a user provides a large enough size, an overflow will occur, the allocated chunk will be too small, and a second user-influenced value will be written repeatedly past the bounds of this chunk. This code is reachable by unprivileged users who have permission to open a /dev/snd/controlC* device (on many distros, this is group "audio") via the SNDRV_CTL_IOCTL_ELEM_ADD and SNDRV_CTL_IOCTL_ELEM_REPLACE ioctls. Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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