Re: [PATCH] econet: 4 byte infoleak to the network

From: Phil Blundell <philb@gnu.org>
Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:50:01 +0000

On Thu, 2011-03-17 at 14:40 +0300, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:

quoted

struct aunhdr has 4 padding bytes between 'pad' and 'handle' fields on
x86_64.  These bytes are not initialized in the variable 'ah' before
sending 'ah' to the network.  This leads to 4 bytes kernel stack
infoleak.

This bug was introduced before the git epoch.

Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <redacted>

Well spotted.  Thanks for the patch.

Acked-by: Phil Blundell <philb@gnu.org>

Applied.