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Re: Information leak in pptp_bind

From Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: Information leak in pptp_bind
Date 2015-12-14 23:50 +0100
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On 14.12.2015 11:38, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> The following program leak various uninit garbage including kernel
> addresses and whatever is on kernel stack, in particular defeating
> ASLR. The issue is in pptp_bind which does not verify sockaddr_len.

Thanks for the report!

I send out a patch soon.


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Information leak in pptp_bind Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@gmail.com> - 2015-12-14 11:40 +0100
  Re: Information leak in pptp_bind Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> - 2015-12-14 23:50 +0100

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