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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 ?


      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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