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From: Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: jmorris@redhat.com, kaber@trash.net, bryan@coverity.com,
	netdev@oss.sgi.com, netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Coverity] Untrusted user data in kernel
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 20:34:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41C334DF.107@dbservice.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041217111634.740d4d46.davem@davemloft.net>

David S. Miller wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 14:18:52 +0100
> Tomas Carnecky <tom@dbservice.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>IMHO such things (passing values between user/kernel space) should 
>>always be checked.
> 
> 
> As per Patrick's posting, which James was responding to, it is
> checked at the level above this function.

Is only the capability checked or also the data passed to the kernel?
It's not clear from Patricks reply:
 > It is already checked in do_ip6t_set_ctl(). Otherwise anyone could
 > replace iptables rules :)
For me it seems that only CAP_NET_ADMIN is checked and not the data.

tom

  reply	other threads:[~2004-12-17 19:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1103247211.3071.74.camel@localhost.localdomain>
2004-12-17  5:15 ` [Coverity] Untrusted user data in kernel James Morris
2004-12-17  5:25   ` Patrick McHardy
2004-12-17  6:45     ` James Morris
2004-12-17 13:18       ` Tomas Carnecky
2004-12-17 19:16         ` David S. Miller
2004-12-17 19:34           ` Tomas Carnecky [this message]
2004-12-17 19:30             ` David S. Miller
2004-12-17 15:47       ` Bill Davidsen
2004-12-17 16:11         ` linux-os
2004-12-17 16:31           ` Oliver Neukum
2004-12-17 18:37           ` Bill Davidsen
2004-12-17 19:18           ` Tomas Carnecky
2004-12-17 19:30             ` Oliver Neukum
2004-12-17 19:39               ` Tomas Carnecky
2004-12-18  1:42           ` Horst von Brand
2004-12-17 15:10   ` Pavel Machek
2004-12-17 15:38     ` James Morris

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