From: Kees Cook Date: Wed, 28 Aug 2013 22:31:52 +0200 Subject: [5/6] HID: picolcd_core: validate output report details MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Origin: https://git.kernel.org/linus/1e87a2456b0227ca4ab881e19a11bb99d164e792 A HID device could send a malicious output report that would cause the picolcd HID driver to trigger a NULL dereference during attr file writing. [jkosina@suse.cz: changed report->maxfield < 1 to report->maxfield != 1 as suggested by Bruno]. CVE-2013-2899 Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Cc: stable@kernel.org Reviewed-by: Bruno Prémont Acked-by: Bruno Prémont Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina --- drivers/hid/hid-picolcd_core.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-picolcd_core.c b/drivers/hid/hid-picolcd_core.c index b48092d..acbb0210 100644 --- a/drivers/hid/hid-picolcd_core.c +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-picolcd_core.c @@ -290,7 +290,7 @@ static ssize_t picolcd_operation_mode_store(struct device *dev, buf += 10; cnt -= 10; } - if (!report) + if (!report || report->maxfield != 1) return -EINVAL; while (cnt > 0 && (buf[cnt-1] == '\n' || buf[cnt-1] == '\r'))