Holger Eitzenberger <holger@my-eitzenberger.de> writes:

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> while going through going netlink code I found out that netlink_bind()
> does not properly check bind parameters.  I checked both 2.6.23-rc1 as
> well as 2.6.16.53, both are affected.
>
> With a small test prog I wasn't able to crash my maschine though, but
> data was accessed out of bounds.

See my attached patch, thanks.

  /holger