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Message-ID: <0901270743030.16125@mjc.redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 07:46:27 +0000 (GMT)
From: Mark J Cox <mjc@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE request -- Linux kernel irda driver buffer
overflow
> A buffer overflow has been recently fixed in the Linux kernel irda
> driver.
This doesn't seem to have any security implications; it's a single null
byte overflow that happens all the time (not under control of an
attacker), and from looking at the function that null byte isn't going to
overwrite anything that would lead to a security consequence.
So it looks to me like a bug, no CVE.
Thanks, Mark
--
Mark J Cox / Red Hat Security Response Team
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