Fix for buffer overflow in ldm_frag_add not sufficient

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As Ben Hutchings discovered [1], the patch for CVE-2011-1017 (buffer
overflow in ldm_frag_add) is not sufficient.  The original patch in
commit c340b1d640 ("fs/partitions/ldm.c: fix oops caused by corrupted
partition table") does not consider that, for subsequent fragments,
previously allocated memory is used.

[1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/6/407

Reported-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Timo Warns <warns@pre-sense.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Timo Warns 2011-05-19 09:24:17 +02:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds

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