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    HID: validate HID report id size · 43622021
    Kees Cook authored
    The "Report ID" field of a HID report is used to build indexes of
    reports. The kernel's index of these is limited to 256 entries, so any
    malicious device that sets a Report ID greater than 255 will trigger
    memory corruption on the host:
    
    [ 1347.156239] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff88094958a878
    [ 1347.156261] IP: [<ffffffff813e4da0>] hid_register_report+0x2a/0x8b
    
    CVE-2013-2888
    Signed-off-by: default avatarKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
    Cc: stable@kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
    43622021
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