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Message-ID: <4D1D84DF.3090302@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 12:53:11 +0530
From: Huzaifa Sidhpurwala <huzaifas@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Dan Rosenberg <dan.j.rosenberg@...il.com>
Subject: Re: CVE request: kernel: buffer overflow in OSS load_mixer_volumes
On 12/31/2010 05:32 AM, Dan Rosenberg wrote:
> "The load_mixer_volumes() function, which can be triggered by
> unprivileged users via the SOUND_MIXER_SETLEVELS ioctl, is vulnerable to
> a buffer overflow. Because the provided 'name' argument isn't
> guaranteed to be NULL terminated at the expected 32 bytes, it's possible
> to overflow past the end of the last element in the mixer_vols array.
> Further exploitation can result in an arbitrary kernel write (via
> subsequent calls to load_mixer_volumes()) leading to privilege
> escalation, or arbitrary kernel reads via get_mixer_levels(). In
> addition, the strcmp() may leak bytes beyond the mixer_vols array."
>
Please use CVE-2010-4527 for this one.
--
Huzaifa Sidhpurwala / Red Hat Security Response Team
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