Re: [PATCH] getsockopt() early argument sanity checking

Alan Cox
2006-08-20T17:55:47Z

Ar Sul, 2006-08-20 am 03:05 +0400, ysgrifennodd Solar Designer:
> The patch makes getsockopt(2) sanity-check the value pointed to by
> the optlen argument early on. This is a security hardening measure
> intended to prevent exploitation of certain potential vulnerabilities in
> socket type specific getsockopt() code on UP systems.
>
> This change has been a part of -ow patches for some years.

Is it in 2.6 ?