Re: [CHECKER] Probable security holes in 2.6.5

[Rusty Russell]

On Sat, 2004-04-17 at 05:27, Chris Wright wrote:
> > [BUG]
> > /home/kash/linux/linux-2.6.5/kernel/module.c:1303:load_module:
> > ERROR:TAINT: 1283:1303:Using user value "((*hdr).e_shstrndx * 0)"
> > without first performing bounds checks

Yes, this is a special case. We've already checked CAP_SYS_MODULE, and
we only do trivial sanity checks for correct arch and truncated
modules.  This is by policy, since there are things we simply can't
check (like the code we're about to run!),

Hope that helps!
Rusty.
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