Return-path: Received: from gundega.hpl.hp.com ([192.6.19.190]:58610 "EHLO gundega.hpl.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2992466AbXCWPu2 (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Mar 2007 11:50:28 -0400 Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 08:48:28 -0700 To: Johannes Berg Cc: "John W. Linville" , stable@kernel.org, linux-wireless Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix information leak in wireless extensions on 64-bit platforms Message-ID: <20070323154828.GA4671@bougret.hpl.hp.com> Reply-To: jt@hpl.hp.com References: <1174640787.3588.65.camel@johannes.berg> <1174657362.3366.6.camel@johannes.berg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: <1174657362.3366.6.camel@johannes.berg> From: Jean Tourrilhes Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 02:42:42PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 14:40 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > > Wireless extensions on 64-bit platforms leak information from the kernel > > stack due to padding in structs that is copied. This affects any > > wireless event stream including scan results and so hence is available > > to unprivileged users. > > Ignore this patch, I see Jean just posted one as well :) > > johannes Yes, sorry for the delay, I wanted to make sure I had all the parts fully fleshed out. Thanks ! Jean