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splice: missing user pointer access verification (CVE-2008-0009/10)
authorJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Fri, 8 Feb 2008 16:49:14 +0000 (08:49 -0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Fri, 8 Feb 2008 20:01:52 +0000 (12:01 -0800)
commit6b2b03268d549b6446d1b148f0262f87ef737492
tree832250f8fface4ffe973185510f7b800c73bb496
parentf70995b2044350bd966a32ecf43164c204293689
splice: missing user pointer access verification (CVE-2008-0009/10)

patch 8811930dc74a503415b35c4a79d14fb0b408a361 in mainline.

vmsplice_to_user() must always check the user pointer and length
with access_ok() before copying. Likewise, for the slow path of
copy_from_user_mmap_sem() we need to check that we may read from
the user region.

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Wojciech Purczynski <cliph@research.coseinc.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
fs/splice.c