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| author | Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> | 2013-05-10 14:48:21 -0700 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2013-06-20 11:28:20 -0700 |
| commit | 720083f1dc15ac6b6fb85b323d0eae1a151e20ce (patch) | |
| tree | 5ddf810fe81aa47b804a4541082507726bda9c9a | |
| parent | ae02c5a7cd1ed15da0976a44b8d0da4ad5c0975d (diff) | |
| download | lwn-720083f1dc15ac6b6fb85b323d0eae1a151e20ce.tar.gz lwn-720083f1dc15ac6b6fb85b323d0eae1a151e20ce.zip | |
b43: stop format string leaking into error msgs
commit e0e29b683d6784ef59bbc914eac85a04b650e63c upstream.
The module parameter "fwpostfix" is userspace controllable, unfiltered,
and is used to define the firmware filename. b43_do_request_fw() populates
ctx->errors[] on error, containing the firmware filename. b43err()
parses its arguments as a format string. For systems with b43 hardware,
this could lead to a uid-0 to ring-0 escalation.
CVE-2013-2852
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c index 7c2e09a1cc04..4db716b64b9a 100644 --- a/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c @@ -2309,7 +2309,7 @@ static int b43_request_firmware(struct b43_wldev *dev) for (i = 0; i < B43_NR_FWTYPES; i++) { errmsg = ctx->errors[i]; if (strlen(errmsg)) - b43err(dev->wl, errmsg); + b43err(dev->wl, "%s", errmsg); } b43_print_fw_helptext(dev->wl, 1); err = -ENOENT; |