On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 09:15:48AM -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 10:12:53AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote: > > The powermate driver expects at least one valid USB endpoint in its > > probe function. If given malicious descriptors that specify 0 for > > the number of endpoints, it will crash. Validate the number of > > endpoints on the interface before using them. > > > > The full report for this issue can be found here: > > http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2016/Mar/85 > > > > Reported-by: Ralf Spenneberg <r...@spenneberg.net> > > Cc: stable <sta...@vger.kernel.org> > > Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwbo...@fedoraproject.org> > > --- > > drivers/input/misc/powermate.c | 3 +++ > > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) > > I'll queue these up after 4.6-rc1 is out as the merge window is closed > right now, but we might want to think about a better way to handle this > type of thing in the USB core. A way to keep from having to add checks
I do not see any reason in holding it until after rc1, applied. > like this for every single driver, when the driver shouldn't even really > have their probe function called unless their expected endpoints are > going to be there. I had a patch where driver could declare minimal amount of endpoints it expects to find, but you mentioned we need something more flexible... Thanks. -- Dmitry -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
