Bug 470366 - Backport security fixes in uvcvideo driver
Summary: Backport security fixes in uvcvideo driver
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 470427
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: kernel
Version: 5.3
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Jay Fenlason
QA Contact: Martin Jenner
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-11-06 21:24 UTC by Jay Fenlason
Modified: 2014-08-31 23:29 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2008-11-07 16:03:34 UTC
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Description Jay Fenlason 2008-11-06 21:24:56 UTC 
Description of problem:
There are two commits in upstream svn (#220 CVE-2008-3496, and #258 (unknown CVE) that need to be backported to the 5.3 uvcvideo driver.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):


How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.create a malicious uvc camera
2.attach it to a 5.3 machine
3.attempt to use it
  
Actual results:
buffer overflows

Expected results:
normal operation

Additional info:
Comment 1 Jay Fenlason 2008-11-06 21:58:31 UTC 
#258 also requires part of #240.  Without #240 it is a stack-based buffer
overflow, for extra danger.
Comment 3 Jay Fenlason 2008-11-07 16:03:34 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 470427 ***
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