Fix sctp privilege elevation (CVE-2006-3745)
authorSridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Tue, 22 Aug 2006 18:50:39 +0000 (11:50 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Tue, 22 Aug 2006 19:52:23 +0000 (12:52 -0700)
sctp_make_abort_user() now takes the msg_len along with the msg
so that we don't have to recalculate the bytes in iovec.
It also uses memcpy_fromiovec() so that we don't go beyond the
length allocated.

It is good to have this fix even if verify_iovec() is fixed to
return error on overflow.

Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

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