Re: [PATCH] Validate num_values for HIDIOCGUSAGES, HIDIOCSUSAGES commands.

From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Fri Jun 24 2016 - 04:22:39 EST


On Thu, 23 Jun 2016, Scott Bauer wrote:

> This patch validates the num_values parameter from userland during
> the HIDIOCGUSAGES and HIDIOCSUSAGES commands. Previously, if the
> report id was set to HID_REPORT_ID_UNKNOWN, we would fail to
> validate the num_values parameter leading to a heap overflow.

Thanks for the fix. I've added Cc: stable, applied it to
for-4.7/upstream-fixes branch, and will be including it in a pull request
to Linus shortly.

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Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs