linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] firewire: cdev: check write quadlet request length to avoid buffer overflow

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Date:	Wed, 07 Jul 2010 13:55:48 +0200
From:	Clemens Ladisch <clemens@...isch.de>
To:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
CC:	linux1394-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] firewire: cdev: check write quadlet request length
 to avoid buffer overflow

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
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