Peter Bartosch wrote:
> Hello all,
>
>
> i think i found a possible buffer overflow in hid-core (2.6.10-rc2):

Agreed, and sorry it took so long to reply/patch this.
(from 2004-DEC-01)

> when i interpret this code right, the buffer (buf) will overflow when
> the iManufacturer stringlength is 0 and the iProduct stringlength
> is > 64!

Thanks, here's a patch for it.

Fix potential buffer overflow (by a device descriptor):
buf size is only 64 bytes.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rddunlap@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>