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Revision 059819a41d4331316dd8ddcf977a24ab338f4300 authored by Marcel Holtmann on 06 March 2007, 21:12:00 UTC, committed by Linus Torvalds on 07 March 2007, 02:01:04 UTC
Based on a patch from Don Howard <dhoward@redhat.com>

When calling write() with a buffer larger than 512 bytes, the
driver's write buffer overflows, allowing to overwrite the EIP and
execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges.

In read(), there exists a similar problem, but coming from the device.
A malicous or buggy device sending more than 512 bytes can overflow
of the driver's read buffer, with the same effects as above.

Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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History
Tip revision: ffb4d94b4314655cea60ab7962756e6bab72fc7e authored by Linus Torvalds on 30 September 2022, 23:25:52 UTC
Merge tag 'drm-fixes-2022-10-01' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm
Tip revision: ffb4d94
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