From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Lidza Louina <lidza.louina@gmail.com>,
Tushar Behera <tushar.behera@linaro.org>,
devel@driverdev.osuosl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: dgnc: fix potential format string flaw
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 22:00:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1378875632.606.5.camel@joe-AO722> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130911044116.GA17294@www.outflux.net>
On Tue, 2013-09-10 at 21:41 -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> Make sure that format strings cannot leak into printk() calls from the
> msgbuf string.
printf(string);
vs
printf("%s", string);
How does this help?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-11 5:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-11 4:41 [PATCH] staging: dgnc: fix potential format string flaw Kees Cook
2013-09-11 5:00 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2013-09-11 5:19 ` Kees Cook
2013-09-11 9:31 ` Dan Carpenter
2013-09-11 18:19 ` Kees Cook
2013-09-11 19:09 ` Joe Perches
2013-09-11 19:25 ` Kees Cook
2013-09-11 19:45 ` Joe Perches
2013-09-11 19:47 ` Kees Cook
2013-09-11 23:22 ` [RFC PATCH] vsnprintf: Remove use of %n and convert existing uses Joe Perches
2013-09-11 23:29 ` Kees Cook
2013-09-11 23:43 ` Joe Perches
2013-09-11 23:40 ` Tetsuo Handa
2013-09-12 0:04 ` Joe Perches
2013-09-12 0:19 ` Al Viro
2013-09-12 0:41 ` Joe Perches
2013-09-12 8:06 ` David Laight
2013-09-12 15:59 ` Joe Perches
2013-09-11 19:28 ` [PATCH] staging: dgnc: fix potential format string flaw Dan Carpenter
2013-09-11 19:22 ` Dan Carpenter
2013-09-11 19:26 ` Kees Cook
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