From: Taesoo Kim <taesoo@gatech.edu>
To: Scott Lovenberg <scott.lovenberg@gmail.com>
Cc: Taesoo Kim <tsgatesv@gmail.com>,
"sfrench@samba.org" <sfrench@samba.org>,
linux-cifs <linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org>,
samba-technical@lists.samba.org,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
changwoo@gatech.edu, sanidhya@gatech.edu, blee@gatech.edu,
csong84@gatech.edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] cifs: potential memory leaks when parsing mnt opts
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2015 23:23:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150322032340.GD5170@taesoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFB9KM3==40uUXxxOD_CD09zFPj3Fmr-Brt7x4SZj86NTf3_vg@mail.gmail.com>
On 03/21/15 at 09:10pm, Scott Lovenberg wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 21, 2015 at 6:08 PM, Taesoo Kim <tsgatesv@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Althouhg mkfs.cifs in userspace performs a bit of sanitization
> > (e.g., forcing one user option), current implementation is not
> > robust. Other options such as iocharset and domainanme are similary
> > vulnerable.
> >
>
> I assume you mean mount.cifs? :-) Anyways, good catch.
Right. FYI, I've tried mangling password field (e.g., pass=a,user=A
&c); Skimming through the code (just a few minutes), there are a few
potential places that don't sanitize its string, unlike passwd. But
don't have much time to play with for now :)
Thanks,
Taesoo
> --
> Peace and Blessings,
> -Scott.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-22 3:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-21 23:08 [PATCH 1/1] cifs: potential memory leaks when parsing mnt opts Taesoo Kim
2015-03-22 2:10 ` Scott Lovenberg
2015-03-22 3:23 ` Taesoo Kim [this message]
2015-03-22 3:54 ` Scott Lovenberg
2015-03-24 4:43 ` Steve French
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