Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 13 Apr 2011 09:17:16 -0700 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | Re: [49/74] netfilter: h323: bug in parsing of ASN1 SEQOF field |
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On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 06:03:39PM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote: > Am 13.04.2011 17:51, schrieb Greg KH: > > 2.6.32-longterm review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. > > > > ------------------ > > > > From: David Sterba <dsterba@suse.cz> > > > > commit b4232a22776aa5d063f890d21ca69870dbbe431b upstream. > > > > Static analyzer of clang found a dead store which appears to be a bug in > > reading count of items in SEQOF field, only the lower byte of word is > > stored. This may lead to corrupted read and communication shutdown. > > > > The bug has been in the module since it's first inclusion into linux > > kernel. > > > > [Patrick: the bug is real, but without practical consequence since the > > largest amount of sequence-of members we parse is 30.] > > As mentioned in the changelog, I don't think this patch is of any > relevance for -stable since its a purely theoretical problem.
Ok, thanks, now removed from the queue.
greg k-h
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