net/rose: prevent integer overflows in rose_setsockopt()
Vulnerability Description
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: net/rose: prevent integer overflows in rose_setsockopt() In case of possible unpredictably large arguments passed to rose_setsockopt() and multiplied by extra values on top of that, integer overflows may occur. Do the safest minimum and fix these issues by checking the contents of 'opt' and returning -EINVAL if they are too large. Also, switch to unsigned int and remove useless check for negative 'opt' in ROSE_IDLE case.
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References
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/4bdd449977e2364a53d0b2a5427e71beb1cd702d
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b8583b54455cbec2fc038fa32b6700890b369815
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/9bdee49ad6bbd26ab5e13cc6731e54fb1b6c1dca
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/352daa50946c3bbb662432e8daf54d6760796589
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d08f4074f9c69f7e95502587eb1b258a965ba7f0
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/e5338930a29d0ab2a5af402f5f664aeba0d1a676
- https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d640627663bfe7d8963c7615316d7d4ef60f3b0b
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