Re: [PATCH] 2.4: USB: fix DoS in pwc USB video driver

From: Willy Tarreau
Date: Thu Feb 07 2008 - 00:46:03 EST


On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 07:06:18PM -0700, dann frazier wrote:
> This is a 2.4 backport of a linux-2.6 change by Oliver Neukum.
> (commit 85237f202d46d55c1bffe0c5b1aa3ddc0f1dce4d)

That's weird, because I remember about this one I checked while working
on 2.6.20-stable. For an unknown reason, I thought that it did not affect
2.4 version of the driver, and I was apparently wrong :-/

> CVE-2007-5093 was assigned for this issue.
> This backport has been compile-tested only.

I've applied it, and I have such a webcam lying somewhere, so I'll be able
to test.

Thanks Dann!
Willy

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