linux-kernel - Re: capget() overflows buffers.

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Message-Id: <1211505622.20341.6.camel@shrek.rexursive.com>
Date:	Fri, 23 May 2008 11:20:22 +1000
From:	Bojan Smojver <bojan@...ursive.com>
To:	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>
Cc:	Dave Jones <davej@...emonkey.org.uk>,
	Andrew Morgan <morgan@...nel.org>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: capget() overflows buffers.

On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 13:53 -0700, Chris Wright wrote:

>     cap_user_header_t head = (cap_user_header_t) xcalloc(1, sizeof(cap_user_header_t));
>     cap_user_data_t cap = (cap_user_data_t) xcalloc(1, sizeof(cap_user_data_t));

BTW, both of the above allocations have been fixed in Squid 2 & 3, as
they were incorrect. Not sure how that worked before - probably by
accident.

http://www.squid-cache.org/bzrview/squid3/trunk/changes?q=9001

-- 
Bojan

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