From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
To: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Cc: linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] firewire: cdev: check write quadlet request length to avoid buffer overflow
Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:55:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C346B44.2020407@ladisch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <tkrat.b2582c62a3eaf0ab@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Stefan Richter wrote:
> [...] Thus the only problem is that a bogus write quadlet
> request with user-specified length of < 3 will put 1...4 random bytes
> into the packet payload. But this is the user's problem then, not the
> kernel's.
But not being initialized, these are the kernel's bytes that get
disclosed.
Regards,
Clemens
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-07 11:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <4C29C1CA.1050705@ladisch.de>
2010-07-07 8:46 ` [PATCH] " Stefan Richter
2010-07-07 9:50 ` [PATCH v2] " Stefan Richter
2010-07-07 10:01 ` [PATCH v3] " Stefan Richter
2010-07-07 11:55 ` Clemens Ladisch [this message]
2010-07-07 12:20 ` Stefan Richter
2010-07-07 12:37 ` [PATCH v4] " Stefan Richter
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