Re: [PATCH v2] Fix libvirtd crash possibility

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On 09/19/2012 07:49 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 09/12/2012 04:44 PM, Martin Kletzander wrote:
>> When generating RPC protocol messages, it's strictly needed to have
>> continuousline of numbers or RPC messages. However in case anyone
>> tries backporting some functionality and will skip a number, there is
>> a possibility to make the daemon segfault with newer virsh (version of
>> the library, rpc call, etc.) even unintentionally.
>>
>> The problem is that the skipped numbers will get func filled with
>> NULLs, but there is no check whether these are set before the daemon
>> tries to run them. This patch very simply enhances one check and fixes
>> that.
>> ---
>>  src/rpc/virnetserverprogram.c | 11 +++++++++--
>>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> Given that this fixes CVE-2012-4423, I have gone and backported it to
> v0.9.6-maint and v0.9.11-maint.
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=857135
> 

Oh, I thought that has to wait for Cole.

Thanks very much for that.
Martin

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