netdev - Re: IPV6: make ipv6_getsockopt_sticky honor user's buffer size

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Thu, 08 Mar 2007 14:38:04 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	chrisw@...s-sol.org
Cc:	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: IPV6: make ipv6_getsockopt_sticky honor user's buffer size

From: Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>
Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2007 23:10:48 -0800

> Make sure not to copy_to_user more than user's buffer can handle (we
> already checked the min, just use it) in ipv6_getsockopt_sticky.  And
> while there, minor whitespace cleanup now that ipv6_getsockopt_sticky
> call can nicely fit on one line.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>

I wonder about this :-)

This gives the user now way to figure out that ipv6_optlen(hdr) is
larger than the len they supplied.

In other situations usually we validate the length and return -EINVAL
if it is too small.

That might be the thing to do in this case too.
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html