Re: Re: [PATCH V2] netfilter: h323: avoid potential attack

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On Thu, 2016-01-28 at 21:14 +0800, Zhouyi Zhou wrote:

> My patch is intend to prevent kernel panic, to prevent reading garbage
> or read data from a prior frame and leak secrets, the prototypes of the 
> get_h2x5_addr functions and the functions that call get_h2x5_addr should
> be changed, should we do this? 

In term of security, panics are better than allowing attacker to read
data from other people, like a password.

BTW, are you able to trigger any panic ?

I am not familiar with this code, it is not obvious.

If a fix is needed, better doing it right.


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