Re: [PATCH] sgi-gru: Fix kernel stack buffer overrun

[Jack Steiner]

On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:08:38AM +0200, Michael Buesch wrote:
> This patch fixes a kernel stack buffer overrun in the sgi-gru procfs
> interface implementation.
> The "count" parameter to options_write() is user controlled. So this bug
> can be used to write '\0' bytes to almost arbitrary places on the kernel stack.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx

Acked-by: Jack Steiner <steiner@xxxxxxx>


Thanks...

--- jack
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