Re: [CHECKER] security rules? (and 2.4.5-ac4 security bug)

From: Florian Weimer (Florian.Weimer@RUS.Uni-Stuttgart.DE)
Date: Fri Jun 08 2001 - 06:24:18 EST

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Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:

> n /u2/engler/mc/oses/linux/2.4.5-ac4/drivers/char/random.c:1813:uuid_strategy: ERROR:RANGE:1809:1813: Using user length "len" as argument to "copy_to_user" [type=LOCAL] set by 'get_user':1813
>
> Sigh I thought I had all of the sysctl ones

BTW uuid_strategy() is broken in the RANDOM_UUID case. It calls
copy_to_user() on table->data, which is always NULL.

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