linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mtd: mtdchar: fix information leak to userland

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Date:	Fri, 26 Nov 2010 17:37:30 +0200
From:	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>
To:	Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@...il.com>
Cc:	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: mtdchar: fix information leak to userland

On Sat, 2010-11-06 at 17:41 +0300, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:
> Structure mtd_info_user is copied to userland with padding byted
> between "type" and "flags" fields uninitialized.  It leads to leaking
> of contents of kernel stack memory.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@...il.com>

Pushed to l2-mtd-2.6.git, thanks.

-- 
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)

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