Re: [CHECKER] Probable Security Errors in 2.4.12-ac3

From: Ken Ashcraft (kash@stanford.edu)
Date: Sun Oct 21 2001 - 04:01:16 EST


> That's not a bug:
> * msgsz is limited to msg->m_ts (2 lines above store_msg)
> * msg->m_ts is set by sys_msgsnd to msgsz, and that function rejects messages longer than msg_ctlmax.

You're right. The checker is broken there. I should have noticed it.
Thanks for the note.

Ken

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