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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3] firewire: cdev: check write quadlet request length to avoid buffer overflow
On  7 Jul, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> 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.

Yes. In which way can this be exploited though? For all practical
purposes, the signal-to-noise ratio of these 1...4 bytes seems to be 0.
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Stefan Richter
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