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Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:36:05 +0100
From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
Cc: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...il.com>,
kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
security@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel: escape non-ASCII and control characters in
printk()
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 08:37:42AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 01:53:41PM +0400, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:
> > This patch escapes all characters outside of allowed '\n' plus 0x20-0x7E
> > charset passed to printk().
> >
> > There are numerous printk() instances with user supplied input as "%s"
> > data, and unprivileged user may craft log messages with substrings
> > containing control characters via these printk()s. Control characters
> > might fool root viewing the logs via tty.
>
> There are "numerous" places this could happen?
USB product identifiers?
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@...f.ucam.org
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