full-disclosure - linux procfs vulnerablity

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Message-ID: <4ef5fec60512231057v2de3cb45j937d2ec188cd7df6@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri Dec 23 18:58:06 2005
From: coderman at gmail.com (coderman)
Subject: linux procfs vulnerablity

On 12/23/05, Karl Janmar <karl@...piafoundation.org> wrote:
> ...
> I have found one flaw in Linux procfs code that make the kernel disclose memory.

i'd love to see you exploit this! rly!


> fs/proc/proc_misc.c:74
> ...
> if (len <= off+count) *eof = 1;
> ...
> off is a off_t and count is a int.

what arch?  on intel assign a s32 to int? the sky is falling...