Re: [PATCH v3] firewire: cdev: check write quadlet request lengthto avoid buffer overflow

[Clemens Ladisch]

Stefan Richter wrote:
> [...] Thus the only problem is that a bogus write quadlet
> request with user-specified length of < 3 will put 1...4 random bytes
> into the packet payload.  But this is the user's problem then, not the
> kernel's.

But not being initialized, these are the kernel's bytes that get
disclosed.


Regards,
Clemens
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