If the iowarrior devices in this case statement support more than 8 bytes per report, it is possible to write past the end of a kernel heap allocation. This will probably never be possible, but change the allocation to be more defensive anyway. Upstream commit: http://git.kernel.org/linus/3ed780117dbe5acb64280d218f0347f238dafed0 Acknowledgements: Red Hat would like to thank Kees Cook for reporting this issue.
Statement: This issue did not affect the versions of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5 as they do not have support for the I/O-Warrior USB devices. This has been addressed in Red Hat Enterprise MRG via https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0330.html. A future kernel update in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 may address this flaw.
This issue has been addressed in following products: MRG for RHEL-5 Via RHSA-2011:0330 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0330.html
This issue has been addressed in following products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Via RHSA-2011:0421 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0421.html