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Message-Id: <20151010153448.8B6371BEBFA@smtpvbsrv1.mitre.org>
Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2015 11:34:48 -0400 (EDT)
From: cve-assign@...re.org
To: guoyonggang@....cn
Cc: cve-assign@...re.org, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE request - Android OS - Using the PPP character device driver caused the system to restart - Linux kernel

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> arg>>16 > 255 and 0xFFFF&arg > 255), which will lead to the use of
> null pointers in the kernel

>> https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=187973

>> /dev/ppp is only accessible by root on Android so there's no security
>> impact on Android unless you can figure out how to get kernel code
>> execution out of a null pointer deref ... this is an issue with the
>> upstream Linux kernel

> Solution:
>       Add a judge in front of "ts = comp->tstate;"

> struct slcompress *
> slhc_init(int rslots, int tslots)
> ...
>       if ( tslots > 0 ) {
>            if(comp->tstate != NULL){
>                  ts = comp->tstate;
>                  for(i = comp->tslot_limit; i > 0; --i){

(not yet available at
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/log/drivers/net/slip/slhc.c)

Use CVE-2015-7799.

- -- 
CVE assignment team, MITRE CVE Numbering Authority
M/S M300
202 Burlington Road, Bedford, MA 01730 USA
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