Patch "[media] usbvision fix overflow of interfaces array" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

[media] usbvision fix overflow of interfaces array

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
usbvision-fix-overflow-of-interfaces-array.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Oliver Neukum <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 09:51:34 -0200
Subject: [media] usbvision fix overflow of interfaces array

From: Oliver Neukum <[email protected]>

commit 588afcc1c0e45358159090d95bf7b246fb67565f upstream.

This fixes the crash reported in:
http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2015/Oct/35
The interface number needs a sanity check.

---
 drivers/media/usb/usbvision/usbvision-video.c |    7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

@@ -1461,6 +1461,13 @@ static int usbvision_probe(struct usb_in
 	printk(KERN_INFO "%s: %s found\n", __func__,
 				usbvision_device_data[model].model_string);
 
+	/*
+	 * this is a security check.
+	 * an exploit using an incorrect bInterfaceNumber is known
+	 */
+	if (ifnum >= USB_MAXINTERFACES || !dev->actconfig->interface[ifnum])
+		return -ENODEV;
+
 	if (usbvision_device_data[model].interface >= 0)
 		interface = &dev->actconfig->interface[usbvision_device_data[model].interface]->altsetting[0];
 	else if (ifnum < dev->actconfig->desc.bNumInterfaces)

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.4/lan78xx-use-skb_cow_head-to-deal-with-cloned-skbs.patch queue-4.4/cx82310_eth-use-skb_cow_head-to-deal-with-cloned-skbs.patch queue-4.4/r8152-fix-the-wake-event.patch queue-4.4/sr9700-use-skb_cow_head-to-deal-with-cloned-skbs.patch queue-4.4/r8152-adjust-aldps-function.patch queue-4.4/smsc75xx-use-skb_cow_head-to-deal-with-cloned-skbs.patch queue-4.4/usbvision-fix-overflow-of-interfaces-array.patch queue-4.4/r8152-use-test_and_clear_bit.patch queue-4.4/usb-musb-ux500-fix-null-pointer-dereference-at-system-pm.patch