Return-path: Received: from ra.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.52]:2408 "EHLO ra.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751939AbXCWQWJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:22:09 -0400 Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2007 11:42:37 -0400 From: "John W. Linville" To: Johannes Berg Cc: stable@kernel.org, linux-wireless , Jean Tourrilhes Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix information leak in wireless extensions on 64-bit platforms Message-ID: <20070323154237.GB3882@tuxdriver.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> 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 :) Hmmm...I seem to have missed it. Perhaps I was too quick w/ the 'd' this morning? :-) Jean, could you bounce me another copy? Thanks, John -- John W. Linville linville@tuxdriver.com