Re: CVE requests: kernel: hfsplus-related bugs

[Greg KH <greg () kroah com>]

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 01:27:42PM +0800, Eugene Teo wrote:
> Eugene Teo wrote:
> > These were committed in upstream kernel. Reported by Eric Sesterhenn.
> >
> > 1) hfsplus: fix Buffer overflow with a corrupted image
> > Upstream commit: efc7ffcb4237f8cb9938909041c4ed38f6e1bf40
> >
> > When an hfsplus image gets corrupted it might happen that the catalog
> > namelength field gets b0rked.  If we mount such an image the memcpy() in
> > hfsplus_cat_build_key_uni() writes more than the 255 that fit in the
> > name field.  Depending on the size of the overwritten data, we either
> > only get memory corruption or also trigger an oops.
>
> There's an equivalent bug for hfs. The upstream commit is d38b7aa. We
> will need a CVE name for this too.
>
> Greg, I don't recall seeing this in -stable kernel. FYI.

Thanks, I've now added it.

greg k-h