On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 13:57:56 -0700 Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org> wrote:
> Fix possible overflow of the buffer used for expanding environment > variables when building file list. > > $ cat usr/crash.list > file foo ${BIG}${BIG}${BIG}${BIG}${BIG}${BIG} 0755 0 0 > $ BIG=$(perl -e 'print "A" x 4096;') ./usr/gen_init_cpio usr/crash.list > *** buffer overflow detected ***: ./usr/gen_init_cpio terminated > > This also replaces the space-indenting with tabs. > > Patch based on existing fix extracted from grsecurity. > > ... > > Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org Why did you feel we need to backport this to -stable? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/