From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: dann frazier <dannf@hp.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>,
support@moxa.com.tw, dilinger@debian.org
Subject: Re: old buffer overflow in moxa driver
Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 00:04:55 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070501000455.2173b1e2@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070430224829.GI31283@krebs.dannf>
> I noticed that the moxa input checking security bug described by
> CVE-2005-0504 appears to remain unfixed upstream.
>
> The issue is described here:
> http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-0504
>
> Debian has been shipping the following patch from Andres Salomon. I
> tried contacting the listed maintainer a few months ago but received
> no response.
case MOXA_LOAD_BIOS:
case MOXA_FIND_BOARD:
case MOXA_LOAD_C320B:
case MOXA_LOAD_CODE:
if (!capable(CAP_SYS_RAWIO))
return -EPERM;
break;
At the point you abuse these calls you can already just load arbitary
data from userspace anyway.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-30 23:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-30 22:48 dann frazier
2007-04-30 23:04 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2007-05-01 0:01 ` Ismail Dönmez
2007-05-01 9:52 ` Alan Cox
2007-05-01 10:03 ` Jiri Slaby
2007-05-01 7:58 ` Jiri Slaby
2007-05-01 8:29 ` Andres Salomon
2007-05-01 14:49 ` dann frazier
2007-05-01 4:05 ` Andres Salomon
2007-05-03 4:20 ` Andrew Morton
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