CVE-2011-0712

Published: 18 February 2011

Multiple buffer overflows in the caiaq Native Instruments USB audio functionality in the Linux kernel before 2.6.38-rc4-next-20110215 might allow attackers to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long USB device name, related to (1) the snd_usb_caiaq_audio_init function in sound/usb/caiaq/audio.c and (2) the snd_usb_caiaq_midi_init function in sound/usb/caiaq/midi.c.

From the Ubuntu security team

Rafael Dominguez Vega discovered that the caiaq Native Instruments USB driver did not correctly validate string lengths. A local attacker with physical access could plug in a specially crafted USB device to crash the system or potentially gain root privileges.

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Status

Package	Release	Status
linux Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released (2.6.38~rc6)







	Patches: Upstream: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6.git;a=commit;h=eaae55dac6b64c0616046436b294e69fc5311581
linux-ec2 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released (2.6.38~rc6)







linux-fsl-imx51 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released (2.6.38~rc6)







linux-lts-backport-maverick Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released (2.6.38~rc6)







linux-lts-backport-natty Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released (2.6.38~rc6)







linux-mvl-dove Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released (2.6.38~rc6)







linux-source-2.6.15 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released (2.6.38~rc6)







linux-ti-omap4 Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released (2.6.38~rc6)

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https://launchpad.net/bugs/768448

CVE-2011-0712

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