Thread (3 messages) 3 messages, 2 authors, 2014-06-05
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[PATCH] dns_resolver: Do not accept domain names longer than 255 chars

From: Manuel Schölling <hidden>
Date: 2014-05-31 16:44:43
Also in: lkml
Subsystem: networking [general], the rest · Maintainers: "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

According to RFC1035 "[...] the total length of a domain name (i.e.,
label octets and label length octets) is restricted to 255 octets or
less."

Signed-off-by: Manuel Schölling <redacted>
---
 net/dns_resolver/dns_query.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/dns_resolver/dns_query.c b/net/dns_resolver/dns_query.c
index e7b6d53..e0fde29 100644
--- a/net/dns_resolver/dns_query.c
+++ b/net/dns_resolver/dns_query.c
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ int dns_query(const char *type, const char *name, size_t namelen,
 
 	if (!namelen)
 		namelen = strlen(name);
-	if (namelen < 3)
+	if (namelen < 3 || namelen > 255)
 		return -EINVAL;
 	desclen += namelen + 1;
 
-- 
1.7.10.4
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