On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 10:43:48PM +0200, Oleg Nesterov wrote: > Yes, we can copy the garbage to the userspace. So what? This should not > matter at all. Exactly because userspace should never used the data after > the end of string, no?
Security people tell me to _never_ leak anything. I'm not near creative enough to exploit such a thing; but I am amazed at the techniques I do read about at times. So its really a better safe than sorry thing. -- 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/
