[Lucid][CVE-2013-2852] b43: stop format string leaking into error msgs
Luis Henriques
luis.henriques at canonical.com
Thu Jun 20 11:31:37 UTC 2013
From: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1189833
The module parameter "fwpostfix" is userspace controllable, unfiltered,
and is used to define the firmware filename. b43_do_request_fw() populates
ctx->errors[] on error, containing the firmware filename. b43err()
parses its arguments as a format string. For systems with b43 hardware,
this could lead to a uid-0 to ring-0 escalation.
CVE-2013-2852
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville at tuxdriver.com>
(cherry picked from commit e0e29b683d6784ef59bbc914eac85a04b650e63c)
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c b/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c
index 9bd5366..c14acea 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c
@@ -2287,7 +2287,7 @@ static int b43_request_firmware(struct b43_wldev *dev)
for (i = 0; i < B43_NR_FWTYPES; i++) {
errmsg = ctx->errors[i];
if (strlen(errmsg))
- b43err(dev->wl, errmsg);
+ b43err(dev->wl, "%s", errmsg);
}
b43_print_fw_helptext(dev->wl, 1);
err = -ENOENT;
--
1.8.1.2
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