Re: [PATCH] bridge: netfilter: fix information leak

From: Patrick McHardy
Date: Mon Feb 14 2011 - 10:50:45 EST


Am 14.02.2011 11:54, schrieb Vasiliy Kulikov:
> Struct tmp is copied from userspace. It is not checked whether the "name"
> field is NULL terminated. This may lead to buffer overflow and passing
> contents of kernel stack as a module name to try_then_request_module() and,
> consequently, to modprobe commandline. It would be seen by all userspace
> processes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks Vasiliy.
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