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Message-ID: <20090127084147.GS21473@genesis.frugalware.org>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:41:47 +0100
From: Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@...galware.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE request -- Linux kernel irda driver buffer
overflow
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 07:46:27AM +0000, Mark J Cox <mjc@...hat.com> wrote:
> 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.
Hrm, OK.
Thanks for the correction.
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