ACK: [SRU][B/C/D][CVE-2019-11884] Add null byte to avoid overflow

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Mon Jun 10 15:10:18 UTC 2019


Acked-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>

 -Kamal

On Fri, Jun 07, 2019 at 03:16:48PM -0700, Connor Kuehl wrote:
> https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2019/CVE-2019-11884.html
> 
> From the link above:
> 
>     "The do_hidp_sock_ioctl function in net/bluetooth/hidp/sock.c in the 
>     Linux kernel before 5.0.15 allows a local user to obtain potentially 
>     sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a HIDPCONNADD command, 
>     because a name field may not end with a '\0' character."
> 
> Clean cherry pick for all releases.
> 
> This patch made its way into Xenial by way of an upstream stable sync
> (LP: #1830176).
> 
> It is already in unstable.
> 
> Young Xiao (1):
>   Bluetooth: hidp: fix buffer overflow
> 
>  net/bluetooth/hidp/sock.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
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> 2.20.1
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