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Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 15:54:15 -0700
From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>
Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@perex.cz>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>,
        security@kernel.org, stable@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH] sound/pci/asihpi: check adapter index in
 hpi_ioctl
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On Thu, Mar 17, 2011 at 06:32:24PM -0400, Dan Rosenberg wrote:
> The user-supplied index into the adapters array needs to be checked, or
> an out-of-bounds kernel pointer could be accessed and used, leading to
> potentially exploitable memory corruption.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>
> ---
>  sound/pci/asihpi/hpioctl.c |    5 +++++
>  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

<formletter>

This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
stable kernel tree.  Please read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt
for how to do this properly.

</formletter>

thanks,

greg k-h
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