From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Solar Designer <solar@openwall.com>
Cc: Willy Tarreau <wtarreau@hera.kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] getsockopt() early argument sanity checking
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 19:15:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1156097756.4051.28.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060819230532.GA16442@openwall.com>
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 ?
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-20 17:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-19 23:05 [PATCH] getsockopt() early argument sanity checking Solar Designer
2006-08-19 23:48 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-08-20 0:05 ` Michael Buesch
2006-08-20 0:43 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-08-20 19:44 ` David Miller
2006-08-20 20:35 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-08-20 21:12 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-21 12:09 ` Eugene Teo
2006-08-20 8:34 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-20 10:15 ` Willy Tarreau
2006-08-20 10:50 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2006-08-20 19:46 ` David Miller
2006-08-20 16:16 ` Solar Designer
2006-08-20 16:30 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-20 19:47 ` David Miller
2006-08-20 18:38 ` Andi Kleen
2006-08-20 19:45 ` Solar Designer
2006-08-20 19:45 ` David Miller
2006-08-20 18:15 ` Alan Cox [this message]
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