Fix for buffer overflow in ldm_frag_add not sufficient
commit8bdae89273d46f3dfc791fb3a013afbf454760f3
authorTimo Warns <Warns@pre-sense.de>
Thu, 19 May 2011 07:24:17 +0000 (19 09:24 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:24:02 +0000 (23 15:24 -0700)
tree7df293f3a370800ef5b5e1c3df55d7584af8ad1c
parent353be243d55875ae80d8074cd3489f5597550030
Fix for buffer overflow in ldm_frag_add not sufficient

commit cae13fe4cc3f24820ffb990c09110626837e85d4 upstream.

As Ben Hutchings discovered [1], the patch for CVE-2011-1017 (buffer
overflow in ldm_frag_add) is not sufficient.  The original patch in
commit c340b1d64000 ("fs/partitions/ldm.c: fix oops caused by corrupted
partition table") does not consider that, for subsequent fragments,
previously allocated memory is used.

[1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/6/407

Reported-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Timo Warns <warns@pre-sense.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
fs/partitions/ldm.c