Alan Cox napsal(a):
>> I noticed that the moxa input checking security bug described by
>> CVE-2005-0504 appears to remain unfixed upstream.
>>
>> The issue is described here:
>> http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-0504
>>
>> Debian has been shipping the following patch from Andres Salomon. I
>> tried contacting the listed maintainer a few months ago but received
>> no response.
>
>
> case MOXA_LOAD_BIOS:
> case MOXA_FIND_BOARD:
> case MOXA_LOAD_C320B:
> case MOXA_LOAD_CODE:
> if (!capable(CAP_SYS_RAWIO))
> return -EPERM;
> break;
>
> At the point you abuse these calls you can already just load arbitary
> data from userspace anyway.
The problem is that we BUG_ON, when len < 0 in copy_from_user which is unlikely
something we want to cause?
regards,
--
http://www.fi.muni.cz/~xslaby/ Jiri Slaby
faculty of informatics, masaryk university, brno, cz
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