old buffer overflow in moxa driver (CVE-2005-0504)

old buffer overflow in moxa driver (CVE-2005-0504)

[backport of 2.6 commit a2f72982e22b96862f8f15272732bd316d4db040]

old buffer overflow in moxa driver

I noticed that the moxa input checking security bug described by
CVE-2005-0504 appears to remain unfixed upstream.

The issue is described here:
  http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-0504

Debian has been shipping the following patch from Andres Salomon.

(akpm: it's a privileged operation)

Signed-off-by: dann frazier <dannf@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>