Description of problem: Marcio Buss has reported a multiple possible buffer overflows in the Linux kernel Neofb video driver. <cite> On file drivers/video/neofb.c it seems there are multiple buffer overrrun errors involving "info->fix.id" For example, on line 2103 the statement sprintf(info->fix.id, "MagicGraph 256XL+"); writes 18 bytes (including the terminator character) into info->fix.id, yet fix.id is only 16 bytes long. Is there any catch here, or the programmer did overlook the lenght of "id"? </cite> Comment from Andrew Morton: "I queued neofb-avoid-overwriting-fb_info-fields.patch to address this." Upstream URL of this problem: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9565 Patch provided (and mentioned by Andrew Morton): http://www.mail-archive.com/mm-commits@vger.kernel.org/msg31424.html
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem described in this bug report. This report is therefore being closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information on the solution and/or where to find the updated files, please follow the link(s) below. You may reopen this bug report if the solution does not work for you. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0314.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0233.html