From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [stable] [PATCH] bridge-netfilter: don't overwrite memory outside of skb
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 15:08:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060825220824.GB26692@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060822171928.7ed34b86@localhost.localdomain>
On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 05:19:28PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> The bridge netfilter code needs to check for space at the
> front of the skb before overwriting; otherwise if skb from
> device doesn't have headroom, then it will cause random
> memory corruption.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Queued to -stable, thanks.
greg k-h
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2006-08-23 0:19 ` [PATCH] bridge-netfilter: don't overwrite memory outside of skb Stephen Hemminger
2006-08-25 22:08 ` Greg KH [this message]
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