[CVE-2010-4157] gdth: integer overflow in ioctl

[Tim Gardner]

On 02/02/2011 05:27 AM, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> CVE-2010-4157
>
> 	Integer overflow in the ioc_general function in drivers/scsi/gdth.c
> 	in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36.1 on 64-bit platforms allows
> 	local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption)
> 	or possibly have unspecified other impact via a large argument
> 	in an ioctl call.
>
> This was fixed before Natty opened, and has already hit Maverick and
> Lucid via the upstream stable process.  The upstream fix cherry-picks
> back to Karmic and Hardy unchanged.  I have backported this fix to
> Dapper as well; including checks for additional parameters from
> userspace (which are validated in other ways in Hardy and later).
>
> Two patches follow, one for Dapper, and a second for Hardy and Karmic.
>
> -apw
>

Acked-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner at canonical.com>

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