From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: drosenberg@vsecurity.com
Cc: grundler@parisc-linux.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, kyle@mcmartin.ca, jeffm@suse.com,
security@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] drivers/net/tulip/de4x5.c: fix union member name in DE4X5_GET_REG ioctl
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 22:27:40 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100916.222740.135972127.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1284699944.2565.4.camel@dan>
From: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 01:05:44 -0400
> Now with descriptive title, as requested.
>
> This was previously reported as a security issue due to leakage of
> uninitialized stack memory. Jeff Mahoney pointed out that this is
> incorrect since the copied data is from a union (rather than a struct).
> Therefore, this patch is only under consideration for the sake of
> correctness, and is not security relevant.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <dan.j.rosenberg@gmail.com>
> Acked-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Tab et al. damaged by your email client.
This is getting tiring for me, I guess it's getting tiring for
you too? :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-09-17 5:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-09-15 21:43 [PATCH v2] drivers/net/tulip/de4x5.c Dan Rosenberg
2010-09-17 4:53 ` David Miller
2010-09-17 5:05 ` [PATCH v3] drivers/net/tulip/de4x5.c: fix union member name in DE4X5_GET_REG ioctl Dan Rosenberg
2010-09-17 5:27 ` David Miller [this message]
2010-09-17 5:30 ` [PATCH v4] " Dan Rosenberg
2010-09-17 5:34 ` David Miller
2010-09-17 6:36 ` [Security] " Willy Tarreau
2010-09-17 6:37 ` Willy Tarreau
2010-09-17 6:53 ` David Miller
2010-09-17 5:31 ` [PATCH v3] " Eric Dumazet
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