Remote buffer overflow bug in kernel

Bryn M. Reeves bmr at redhat.com
Thu Nov 6 10:54:32 UTC 2008


Antonio Olivares wrote:
> Only users which run ndiswrapper on Fedora systems sould be concerned.

They should be concerned anyway. The ndiswrapper code does not play 
nicely with 4k kernel mode stacks which have been the standard on Fedora 
kernels for years now.

Windows NDIS drivers expect to have up to 12k of stack available to them 
and anyone who crowbars ndiswrapper into a standard Fedora kernel is 
asking for it to randomly blow up in their face.

Regards,
Bryn.




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