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Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2015 10:29:16 +1000
From: Michael Samuel <mik@...net.net>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Re: Problems in automatic crash analysis frameworks
On 15 April 2015 at 07:08, Tavis Ormandy <taviso@...gle.com> wrote:
>>>> import socket
>>>> socket.socket(socket.AF_UNIX, socket.SOCK_STREAM).bind('test\ntest')
>>>> sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_UNIX, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
>>>> sock.bind('/tmp/foo\nbar')
>>>> sock.listen(1)
>
> $ grep -A1 foo /proc/net/unix
> 0000000000000000: 00000002 00000000 00010000 0001 01 4772228 /tmp/foo
> bar
This is a Linux kernel flaw/bug right? It's a machine-readable
newline-delimited
/proc file, so it needs to escape newlines if they're valid data.
Regards,
Michael
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