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Commit 252a52aa authored by Dan Rosenberg's avatar Dan Rosenberg Committed by Linus Torvalds
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Fix pktcdvd ioctl dev_minor range check



The PKT_CTRL_CMD_STATUS device ioctl retrieves a pointer to a
pktcdvd_device from the global pkt_devs array.  The index into this
array is provided directly by the user and is a signed integer, so the
comparison to ensure that it falls within the bounds of this array will
fail when provided with a negative index.

This can be used to read arbitrary kernel memory or cause a crash due to
an invalid pointer dereference.  This can be exploited by users with
permission to open /dev/pktcdvd/control (on many distributions, this is
readable by group "cdrom").

Signed-off-by: default avatarDan Rosenberg <dan.j.rosenberg@gmail.com>
[ Rather than add a cast, just make the function take the right type -Linus ]
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 95929eff
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