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| author | Kees Cook <[email protected]> | 2013-07-03 15:01:14 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> | 2013-07-03 16:07:25 -0700 |
| commit | ffc8b30866879ed9ba62bd0a86fecdbd51cd3d19 (patch) | |
| tree | 21fdc09c7011ed9a1b85e98f7718a58a2c903d32 /tools/perf/scripts/python | |
| parent | 542db01579fbb7ea7d1f7bb9ddcef1559df660b2 (diff) | |
block: do not pass disk names as format strings
Disk names may contain arbitrary strings, so they must not be
interpreted as format strings. It seems that only md allows arbitrary
strings to be used for disk names, but this could allow for a local
memory corruption from uid 0 into ring 0.
CVE-2013-2851
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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