From: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 21:57:33 +0200
> Quoting Dan Rosenberg:
> | A length of zero (after subtracting two for the type and len fields) for
> | the DCCPO_{CHANGE,CONFIRM}_{L,R} options will cause an underflow due to
> | the subtraction. The subsequent code may read past the end of the
> | options value buffer when parsing. I'm unsure of what the consequences
> | of this might be, but it's probably not good.
> |
> Please disregard my earlier message, I erred.
> Dan is right, his patch is correct and definitively valid.
> A length of 0 would be cast to 0xff and then cause buffer overrun.
>
> | Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> | Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx
> Acked-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Great, I'll apply this, thanks!
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