fbdev: sisfb: Fix strbuf array overflow
Vulnerability Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: fbdev: sisfb: Fix strbuf array overflow The values of the variables xres and yres are placed in strbuf. These variables are obtained from strbuf1. The strbuf1 array contains digit characters and a space if the array contains non-digit characters. Then, when executing sprintf(strbuf, "%ux%ux8", xres, yres); more than 16 bytes will be written to strbuf. It is suggested to increase the size of the strbuf array to 24. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
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References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/433c84c8495008922534c5cafdae6ff970fb3241
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/57c4f4db0a194416da237fd09dad9527e00cb587
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/252f147b1826cbb30ae0304cf86b66d3bb12b743
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/41cf6f26abe4f491b694c54bd1aa2530369b7510
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/889304120ecb2ca30674d89cd4ef15990b6a571c
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/688872c4ea4a528cd6a057d545c83506b533ee1f
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/11c0d49093b82f6c547fd419c41a982d26bdf5ef
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9cf14f5a2746c19455ce9cb44341b5527b5e19c3
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