| Subject | Re: [PATCH 4.4 057/101] net: sctp: fix array overrun read on sctp_timer_tbl | From | Ben Hutchings <> | Date | Tue, 04 Jul 2017 19:48:36 +0100 |
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On Mon, 2017-07-03 at 15:34 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > 4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > > ------------------ > > From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com> > > > [ Upstream commit 0e73fc9a56f22f2eec4d2b2910c649f7af67b74d ] > > The comparison on the timeout can lead to an array overrun > read on sctp_timer_tbl because of an off-by-one error. [...]
The off-by-one error was only introduced in 4.11 by:
commit 7b9438de0cd4b46a6914416bfede6cf839cd9e68 Author: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com> Date: Wed Jan 18 00:44:43 2017 +0800
sctp: add stream reconf timer
So it is harmless but also useless to apply this to 4.4 and 4.9.
Ben.
-- Ben Hutchings Software Developer, Codethink Ltd.
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