netdev - Re: [PATCH] drivers/isdn: checkng length to be sure not memory overflow

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Date:	Thu, 28 Feb 2013 19:01:12 +0800
From:	Chen Gang <gang.chen@...anux.com>
To:	Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
CC:	Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>, isdn@...ux-pingi.de,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, alan@...ux.intel.com,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/isdn: checkng length to be sure not memory overflow

于 2013年02月28日 18:00, Jiri Slaby 写道:
> I don't think there are piles of people to care about ISDN much nowadays. 

  I don't think either.
    (I found it through reading the source code, by search strncpy)

  if this is quite minor:
    I suggest to delete this module.
    the reason is:
      it can not provide contributes, any more.
      but may give a chance to the hacker which want to make an attack.

  :-)

> So we can
> close that it is correct to drop the rest of the buffer. In a hope that
> +M is not followed by text longer than 50-or-so chars.

  can we be sure that "+M..." is no more than 100+ chars ?
    (I guess the sizeof (isdn_ctrl.parm) is 80+, but less than 100)
  if we can not be sure:
    do we need check and limit the length ? (I prefer to give a check)
    if the module will really be delete,
      I still suggest to maintain previous versions (for security issue)


  thanks.


-- 
Chen Gang

Asianux Corporation
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