CVE-2004-2731 - Well hung Splices

Description

Multiple integer overflows in Sbus PROM driver (drivers/sbus/char/openprom.c) for the Linux kernel 2.4.x up to 2.4.27 2.6.x up to 2.6.7 and possibly later versions allow local users to execute arbitrary code by specifying (1) a small buffer size to the copyin_string function or (2) a negative buffer size to the copyin function.

Reference

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2004-06/0463.html http://www.securiteam.com/unixfocus/5GP0515DFW.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10632 http://www.osvdb.org/7345 http://www.osvdb.org/8363 http://securitytracker.com/id?1010617 http://secunia.com/advisories/11981 http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1503 http://secunia.com/advisories/29058