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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: santosh prasad nayak <santoshprasadnayak@gmail.com>
Cc: bart.de.schuymer@pandora.be, kaber@trash.net,
	shemminger@vyatta.com, davem@davemloft.net,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Resend [PATCH] netfilter: Fix copy_to_user too small size parametre.
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 18:03:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120304170357.GA24080@1984> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOD=uF6UvL2oEmJmgak4X5L0PR+qQi2=Vr22AUsAxLLOfi44rw@mail.gmail.com>

On Sun, Mar 04, 2012 at 06:09:08PM +0530, santosh prasad nayak wrote:
> where is it broken ?
> Can you please explain ?

> >> +     strncpy(name, t->u.target->name, sizeof(name));
> >>       hlp = ubase + (((char *)e + e->target_offset) - base);
> >>       t = (struct ebt_entry_target *)(((char *)e) + e->target_offset);

In ebt_make_names, you dereference t but it is not initialized.

Note that strncpy refers to t->u.target->name which is initialized a
couple of lines after it.

      reply	other threads:[~2012-03-04 17:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-01 17:09 Resend [PATCH] netfilter: Fix copy_to_user too small size parametre santosh nayak
2012-03-02  9:05 ` David Laight
2012-03-02 10:01   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2012-03-04 12:18 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2012-03-04 12:39   ` santosh prasad nayak
2012-03-04 17:03     ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]

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