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From: Matti Linnanvuori <mattilinnanvuori@yahoo.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: /dev/urandom uses uninit bytes, leaks user data
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 23:20:30 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <977119.41267.qm@web52005.mail.re2.yahoo.com> (raw)

From: Matti Linnanvuori <mattilinnnvuori@yahoo.com>

/dev/urandom use no uninit bytes, leak no user data

Signed-off-by: Matti Linnanvuori <mattilinnnvuori@yahoo.com>

---

--- a/drivers/char/random.c	2007-12-15 09:09:37.895414000 +0200
+++ b/drivers/char/random.c	2007-12-15 09:12:02.607831500 +0200
@@ -689,7 +689,7 @@ static ssize_t extract_entropy(struct en
  */
 static void xfer_secondary_pool(struct entropy_store *r, size_t nbytes)
 {
-	__u32 tmp[OUTPUT_POOL_WORDS];
+	static __u32 tmp[OUTPUT_POOL_WORDS];
 
 	if (r->pull && r->entropy_count < nbytes * 8 &&
 	    r->entropy_count < r->poolinfo->POOLBITS) {




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             reply	other threads:[~2007-12-15  7:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-15  7:20 Matti Linnanvuori [this message]
2007-12-15  7:54 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-12-15 22:44 linux
2007-12-14 19:34 John Reiser
2007-12-14 20:13 ` Matt Mackall
2007-12-14 20:45   ` John Reiser
2007-12-14 23:23     ` Theodore Tso
2007-12-15  0:30       ` John Reiser
2007-12-15  4:32         ` Theodore Tso
2007-12-17 16:30           ` John Reiser
2007-12-17 17:36             ` Theodore Tso
2007-12-18  0:52               ` Andy Lutomirski
2007-12-18  3:05                 ` Theodore Tso
2007-12-18  3:13                   ` David Newall
2007-12-18  3:46                     ` Theodore Tso
2007-12-18  4:09                       ` David Newall
2007-12-18  4:23                         ` Theodore Tso
2007-12-19 22:43                           ` Bill Davidsen
2007-12-19 22:40                         ` Bill Davidsen
2007-12-20  4:18                       ` Andrew Lutomirski
2007-12-20 20:17                         ` Phillip Susi
2007-12-21 16:10                           ` Andrew Lutomirski
2007-12-22  1:14                             ` Theodore Tso
2007-12-26 18:30                             ` Phillip Susi
2007-12-20 20:36                         ` Theodore Tso
2007-12-27 10:44                           ` Pavel Machek
2007-12-18  5:12                 ` David Schwartz
2007-12-17 20:59             ` David Schwartz
2007-12-15  7:13         ` Herbert Xu
2007-12-15 16:30           ` Matt Mackall

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