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From: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: wzt.wzt@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Wensong Zhang <wensong@linux-vs.org>,
	Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, lvs-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] IPVS: replace sprintf to snprintf to avoid stack buffer overflow
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 08:34:46 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100407223445.GA15810@verge.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BBCAE52.9080501@trash.net>

On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 06:09:54PM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Simon Horman wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 10:50:20AM +0800, wzt.wzt@gmail.com wrote:
> >> IPVS not check the length of pp->name, use sprintf will cause stack buffer overflow.
> >> struct ip_vs_protocol{} declare name as char *, if register a protocol as:
> >> struct ip_vs_protocol ip_vs_test = {
> >>         .name =			"aaaaaaaa....128...aaa",
> >> 	.debug_packet =         ip_vs_tcpudp_debug_packet,
> >> };
> >>
> >> when called ip_vs_tcpudp_debug_packet(), sprintf(buf, "%s TRUNCATED", pp->name); 
> >> will cause stack buffer overflow.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Zhitong Wang <zhitong.wangzt@alibaba-inc.com>
> > 
> > I think that the simple answer is, don't do that.
> 
> Indeed.
> 
> > But your patch seems entirely reasonable to me.
> > 
> > Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
> > 
> > Patrick, please consider merging this.
> 
> I think this fix is a bit silly, we can simply print the name in
> the pr_debug() statement and avoid both the potential overflow
> and truncation.
> 
> How does this look?

Looks good to me:

Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>

  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-07 22:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-06  2:50 [PATCH] IPVS: replace sprintf to snprintf to avoid stack buffer overflow wzt.wzt
2010-04-06  2:58 ` Changli Gao
2010-04-06  3:26   ` Simon Horman
2010-04-06  3:22 ` Simon Horman
2010-04-07 16:09   ` Patrick McHardy
2010-04-07 22:34     ` Simon Horman [this message]
2010-04-08 11:37       ` Patrick McHardy

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