linux-kernel - [PATCH] getsockopt() early argument sanity checking

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Message-ID: <20060819230532.GA16442@openwall.com>
Date:	Sun, 20 Aug 2006 03:05:32 +0400
From:	Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To:	Willy Tarreau <wtarreau@...a.kernel.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] getsockopt() early argument sanity checking

Willy,

I propose the attached patch (extracted from 2.4.33-ow1) for inclusion
into 2.4.34-pre.

(2.6 kernels could benefit from the same change, too, but at the moment
I am dealing with proper submission of generic changes like this that
are a part of 2.4.33-ow1.)

The patch makes getsockopt(2) sanity-check the value pointed to by
the optlen argument early on.  This is a security hardening measure
intended to prevent exploitation of certain potential vulnerabilities in
socket type specific getsockopt() code on UP systems.

This change has been a part of -ow patches for some years.

Thanks,

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