netdev - Re: [patch] isdn: fix information leak

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Date:	Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:21:55 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	error27@...il.com
Cc:	isdn@...ux-pingi.de, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] isdn: fix information leak

From: Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2010 11:38:06 +0200

> The main motivation of this patch changing strcpy() to strlcpy().  
> We strcpy() to copy a 48 byte buffers into a 49 byte buffers.  So at
> best the last byte has leaked information, or maybe there is an
> overflow?  Anyway, this patch closes the information leaks by zeroing
> the memory and the calls to strlcpy() prevent overflows. 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>

Applied.
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