On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 05:56:46PM +0200, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> this is not yet a buffer overflow proof, but you are getting closer perhaps.

For this kind of stuff, I prefer to err on the "there's a buffer overflow
unless proven otherwise", it's too dangerous to make the opposite
assumption.

> > So what we are trusting here is an arbitrary value provided by the guest
> > system?
> 
> Yes, no further checks after that afaict. So a misconfigured guest
> could trigger this error perhaps.

I'm more concerned about malicious guests than misconfigured ones.

Christophe

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