> On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 06:09:54PM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>> Simon Horman wrote:
>>> On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 10:50:20AM +0800,
wzt.wzt@gmail.com wrote:
>>>> IPVS not check the length of pp->name, use sprintf will cause stack buffer overflow.
>>>> struct ip_vs_protocol{} declare name as char *, if register a protocol as:
>>>> struct ip_vs_protocol ip_vs_test = {
>>>> .name = "aaaaaaaa....128...aaa",
>>>> .debug_packet = ip_vs_tcpudp_debug_packet,
>>>> };
>>>>
>>>> when called ip_vs_tcpudp_debug_packet(), sprintf(buf, "%s TRUNCATED", pp->name);
>>>> will cause stack buffer overflow.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Zhitong Wang <zhitong.wangzt@alibaba-inc.com>
>>> I think that the simple answer is, don't do that.
>> Indeed.
>>
>>> But your patch seems entirely reasonable to me.
>>>
>>> Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
>>>
>>> Patrick, please consider merging this.
>> I think this fix is a bit silly, we can simply print the name in
>> the pr_debug() statement and avoid both the potential overflow
>> and truncation.
>>
>> How does this look?
>
> Looks good to me:
>
> Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
