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Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] mac80211: 11d Handling - Country Information Element

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On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 11:18 PM, Johannes Berg
<johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> >> +     if (country_ie_len < 6) {
>> >> +             printk(KERN_ERR "%s: country information element shorter (%d)"
>> >> +                     " than expected.\n", __func__, country_ie_len);
>> >
>> > Remotely exploitable security bug.
>
>> Please explain,
>
> Sending broken frames will fill the disk.

I see thanks (yeah, distors doesn't make separate log partitions as default)

Tomas
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