From: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>
To: b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org
Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH maint] batman-adv: Avoid probe ELP information leak
Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2018 18:06:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6769424.zgFbfVuIz9@sven-edge> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180831130844.5434-1-sven@narfation.org>
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On Freitag, 31. August 2018 15:08:44 CEST Sven Eckelmann wrote:
> The probe ELPs for WiFi interfaces are expanded to contain at least
> BATADV_ELP_MIN_PROBE_SIZE bytes. This is usually a lot more than the
> number of bytes which the template ELP packet requires.
>
> These extra padding bytes were not initialized and thus could contain data
> which were previously stored at the same location. It is therefore required
> to set it to some predefined or random values to avoid leaking private
> information from the system transmitting these kind of packets.
Added as 6c876e572f59 [1]
Kind regards,
Sven
[1] https://git.open-mesh.org/batman-adv.git/commit/6c876e572f592c31132a55b5fb8427e168e5fb3c
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-31 13:08 [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH maint] batman-adv: Avoid probe ELP information leak Sven Eckelmann
2018-08-31 13:20 ` Sven Eckelmann
2018-09-02 16:08 ` Antonio Quartulli
2018-09-05 16:06 ` Sven Eckelmann [this message]
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