[libvirt] [PATCHv2-resend] uml: sanity check external data before using it

[Eric Blake]

On 06/10/2010 02:06 PM, Matthias Bolte wrote:
> 2010/6/10 Eric Blake <eblake at redhat.com>:
>> Otherwise, a malicious packet could cause a DoS via spurious
>> out-of-memory failure.
>>
>> * src/uml/uml_driver.c (umlMonitorCommand): Validate that incoming
>> data is reliable before using it to allocate/dereference memory.
>> Don't report bogus errno on short read.
>> Reported by Jim Meyering.
>> ---
>>
> 
> ACK.

Thanks; pushed now.

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Eric Blake   eblake at redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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