netdev - Re: [patch 1/1] sctp: prevent reading out-of-bounds memory

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Message-Id: <20101003.215954.112586909.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sun, 03 Oct 2010 21:59:54 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, dan.j.rosenberg@...il.com,
	vladislav.yasevich@...com
Subject: Re: [patch 1/1] sctp: prevent reading out-of-bounds memory

From: akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 14:16:58 -0700

> From: Dan Rosenberg <dan.j.rosenberg@...il.com>
> 
> Two user-controlled allocations in SCTP are subsequently dereferenced as
> sockaddr structs, without checking if the dereferenced struct members fall
> beyond the end of the allocated chunk.  There doesn't appear to be any
> information leakage here based on how these members are used and
> additional checking, but it's still worth fixing.
> 
> [akpm@...ux-foundation.org: remove unfashionable newlines, fix gmail tab->space conversion]
> Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <dan.j.rosenberg@...il.com>
> Acked-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@...com>
> Cc: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>

Applied.
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