Thanks Eric for replying
> -----Original Messages-----
> From: "Eric Dumazet" <[email protected]>
> Sent Time: Thursday, January 28, 2016
> To: "Zhouyi Zhou" <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected],
> [email protected], [email protected], [email protected],
> [email protected], [email protected], "Zhouyi Zhou"
> <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH V2] netfilter: h323: avoid potential attack
>
> On Thu, 2016-01-28 at 16:59 +0800, Zhouyi Zhou wrote:
> > Thanks Eric for your review and advice.
> >
> > I think hackers chould build a malicious h323 packet to overflow
> > the pointer p which will panic during the memcpy(addr, p, len)
> >
> > For example, he may fabricate a very large taddr->ipAddress.ip;
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Zhouyi Zhou <[email protected]>
> > ---
>
> Except you did not address my feedback about potentially reading not
> initialized memory.
>
> if the frame length was 1000 bytes, then surely accessing memory at
> offset 8000 will either read garbage, or read data from a prior frame
> and leak secrets.
My patch is intend to prevent kernel panic, to prevent reading garbage
or read data from a prior frame and leak secrets, the prototypes of the
get_h2x5_addr functions and the functions that call get_h2x5_addr should
be changed, should we do this?
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Cheers
Zhouyi
