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Commit e0e29b68 authored by Kees Cook's avatar Kees Cook Committed by John W. Linville
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b43: stop format string leaking into error msgs



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: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
parent 5efac949
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