Re: [PATCH] sanitize task->comm to avoid leaking escape codes

[Kees Cook]

Hi,

On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 01:00:28PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Surely it would be better to fix the tools which display this info
> rather than making the kernel tell fibs.

The strncpy in get_task_comm() is totally wrong -- it's testing the length
of task->comm.  Why should get_task_comm not take a destination buffer
length argument?  At least consider v2 of the patch -- it just fixes the
get_task_comm definition and callers.

But, if not, then patches to the kernel that include
printk(..., get_task_comm(...) ...) shouldn't be considered flawed[1].

-Kees

[1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/6/23/132

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Kees Cook
Ubuntu Security Team
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