Messages in this thread |  | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] getsockopt() early argument sanity checking | | From | Alan Cox <> | | Date | Sun, 20 Aug 2006 19:15:56 +0100 |
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Ar Sul, 2006-08-20 am 03:05 +0400, ysgrifennodd Solar Designer: > The patch makes getsockopt(2) sanity-check the value pointed to by > the optlen argument early on. This is a security hardening measure > intended to prevent exploitation of certain potential vulnerabilities in > socket type specific getsockopt() code on UP systems. > > This change has been a part of -ow patches for some years.
Is it in 2.6 ?
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