Bug 471835 - kernel: V4L/DVB (9621): Avoid writing outside shadow.bytes[] array
Summary: kernel: V4L/DVB (9621): Avoid writing outside shadow.bytes[] array
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 471840 471841 471842 471843 471844 471845 471846 471847
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-11-17 04:10 UTC by Eugene Teo (Security Response)
Modified: 2011-09-30 21:13 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2011-09-30 21:13:24 UTC
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Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2009:0053 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE Important: kernel-rt security and bug fix update 2009-02-04 15:05:12 UTC

Description Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2008-11-17 04:10:29 UTC 
From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab>
There were no check about the limits of shadow.bytes array. This offers a risk of writing values outside the limits, overriding other data areas.
Comment 1 Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2008-11-17 04:11:06 UTC 
Proposed upstream patch:
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=494264379d186bf806613d27aafb7d88d42f4212
Comment 4 Kurt Seifried 2011-09-30 21:13:24 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise MRG v1 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (version 5)

Via RHSA-2009:0053 available at
https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0053.html
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