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From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com>
Cc: linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	"wireless-regdb@lists.infradead.org"
	<wireless-regdb@lists.infradead.org>,
	alexandre <alexandre@cmu.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] reglib: Validate all structure and array lengths
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2013 01:46:08 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1374194768.15633.32.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAB=NE6Vz_3d9Vz62dNTWocT3MTqvG4Ez+MZc0w-w8KBgkaapxg@mail.gmail.com>

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On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 18:31 -0700, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 30, 2013 at 4:49 PM, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> > Add checks that:
> > - Signature length does not exceed the file length (this was already
> >   checked, but did not account for signature lengths greater than 2 GB)
> > - Database length is long enough for all structures we expect in it
> > - Array length calculations will not overflow
> >
> > To keep these checks simple, change the types of array length and index
> > variables to unsigned int (must be at least 32-bit, matching the file
> > format) and the types of byte-length variables to size_t.
> >
> > Alexandre Rebert <alexandre@cmu.edu> reported and provided a test case
> > for the signature length issue; the others I found by inspection.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
> 
> Thanks! Despite the fact you didn't resend for a wider review and I
> would have preferred this split up into a few patches this has been
> sitting on wireless-regdb for a while, so after my review I just
> applied and pushed. Thanks again!

Sorry about that - I was meaning to re-send but it never quite got to
the top of my to-do list.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Humans are not rational beings; they are rationalising beings.

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2013-07-17  1:31 ` [PATCH] reglib: Validate all structure and array lengths Luis R. Rodriguez
2013-07-19  0:46   ` Ben Hutchings [this message]

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