From 88ce7cf76ced99962699d0ebb4d47d6a88b94c29 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kees Cook Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 15:01:14 -0700 Subject: block: do not pass disk names as format strings commit ffc8b30866879ed9ba62bd0a86fecdbd51cd3d19 upstream. 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 Cc: Jens Axboe Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- block/genhd.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'block') diff --git a/block/genhd.c b/block/genhd.c index 20625eed551..cdeb5277dfd 100644 --- a/block/genhd.c +++ b/block/genhd.c @@ -512,7 +512,7 @@ static void register_disk(struct gendisk *disk) ddev->parent = disk->driverfs_dev; - dev_set_name(ddev, disk->disk_name); + dev_set_name(ddev, "%s", disk->disk_name); /* delay uevents, until we scanned partition table */ dev_set_uevent_suppress(ddev, 1); -- cgit v1.2.3