cvs commit: src/sys/kern subr_bus.c subr_rman.c vfs_subr.c
src/sys/net if_mib.c src/sys/netinet ip_divert.c raw_ip.c udp_usrreq.c
M. Warner Losh
imp at bsdimp.com
Thu May 5 22:54:37 PDT 2005
In message: <20050505.232214.96921001.imp at bsdimp.com>
"M. Warner Losh" <imp at bsdimp.com> writes:
: : > If we are going to
: : > 1. Copy a NULL-terminated string into a fixed-length buffer, and
: : > 2. copyout that buffer to userland,
: : > we really ought to
: : > 0. Zero the entire buffer
: : > first.
: : >
: : > Security: FreeBSD-SA-05:08.kmem
: :
: : /me notes this is a good reason to use strncpy instead of strlcpy.
:
: Don't you mean the opposite?
Actually, in at least one of these cases that were fixed should be
fixed by allocating the structure M_ZERO because it is a little too
large for the stack anyway.
Warner
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