A HID device could send a malicious output report that would cause the
steelseries HID driver to write beyond the output report allocation
during initialization, causing a heap overflow:
[ 167.981534] usb 1-1: New USB device found, idVendor=1038, idProduct=1410
...
[ 182.050547] BUG kmalloc-256 (Tainted: G W ): Redzone overwritten
CVE-2013-2891
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Reviewed-by: Benjamin Tissoires <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <[email protected]>
goto err_free;
}
+ if (!hid_validate_values(hdev, HID_OUTPUT_REPORT, 0, 0, 16)) {
+ ret = -ENODEV;
+ goto err_free;
+ }
+
ret = hid_hw_start(hdev, HID_CONNECT_DEFAULT);
if (ret) {
hid_err(hdev, "hw start failed\n");