Bug 1146302 (CVE-2016-10907)

Summary:	VUL-1: CVE-2016-10907: kernel-source: out of bounds write in the function ad5755_parse_dt
Product:	[Novell Products] SUSE Security Incidents	Reporter:	Alexandros Toptsoglou <atoptsoglou>
Component:	Incidents	Assignee:	E-mail List <kernel-maintainers>
Status:	RESOLVED UPSTREAM	QA Contact:	Security Team bot <security-team>
Severity:	Minor
Priority:	P5 - None	CC:	meissner, smash_bz
Version:	unspecified
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Hardware:	Other
OS:	Other
URL:	https://smash.suse.de/issue/240422/
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Description Alexandros Toptsoglou 2019-08-20 08:12:25 UTC

CVE-2016-10907

An issue was discovered in drivers/iio/dac/ad5755.c in the Linux kernel before
4.8.6. There is an out of bounds write in the function ad5755_parse_dt.

References:
http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2016-10907
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2016/CVE-2016-10907.html
http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-10907
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=9d47964bfd471f0dd4c89f28556aec68bffa0020
https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.8.6

Comment 1 Alexandros Toptsoglou 2019-08-20 08:13:34 UTC

The vulnerable function introduced in version 4.8. Our version 4.12 already ships the fix and the older version that we ship are not affected.