Re: [PATCH 0/2] Fix info leaks on export for udf and isofs

From: Jan Kara
Date: Fri Jul 13 2012 - 08:10:22 EST


On Thu 12-07-12 08:46:53, Mathias Krause wrote:
> Al, Jan,
>
> this patch set fixes info leaks in isofs and udf. Both file systems fail to
> initialize all bytes of the f_handle byte array when creating a handle for a
> path pointing to a directory. This memory gets copied to userland and that for
> is a leak of uninitialized heap data to userland that should be fixed.
>
> This info leak can be triggered locally by using the name_to_handle_at()
> syscall.
Thanks! I've merged both patches into my tree.

Honza
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Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
SUSE Labs, CR
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