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From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com>
Cc: Xue Ying <ying.xue0@gmail.com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Shan Wei <shanwei88@gmail.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
	netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Suggestion] net/netfilter: strcpy for timeout->name
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 12:39:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121121113901.GA25102@breakpoint.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50AB4386.3080603@asianux.com>

Chen Gang <gang.chen@asianux.com> wrote:
> Please help checking net/netfilter/nfnetlink_cttimeout.c:
>   I suggest, we use strncpy instead of strcpy at line 143. 
>   just like we have already used strncmp at line 94.
[..]
>   after checking the calling work flow:
>     the length of nla_data(cda[CTA_TIMEOUT_NAME]) is not limited in server side.

Good catch, classic buffer overflow.

I've sent a patch to add the missing "len" policy.  Thanks for reporting
this bug.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-21 11:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-20  4:08 [Suggestion] net/tipc: can delete checking: (if_local_len > TIPC_MAX_IF_NAME) || (if_peer_len > TIPC_MAX_IF_NAME) Chen Gang
2012-11-20  5:19 ` Xue Ying
2012-11-20  5:25   ` Chen Gang
2012-11-20  8:47   ` [Suggestion] net/netfilter: strcpy for timeout->name Chen Gang
2012-11-21 11:39     ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2012-11-21 12:17       ` Chen Gang

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