[PATCH 1/2] audit: fix NUL handling in untrusted strings
Steve Grubb
sgrubb at redhat.com
Thu Sep 11 19:08:13 UTC 2008
On Thursday 11 September 2008 14:10:12 Miloslav Trmač wrote:
> > As a side note I'm concerned there may be places in the user audit
> > code which treat string data as null terminated (at least that is my
> > recollection).
>
> Yes, auditd adds a NUL terminator to the audit record, and then treats
> it as a regular NUL-terminated string; if the audit record contains an
> embedded NUL byte, the rest of the record is discarded by auditd.
In every case where this occurs (kernel or user space), the field values are
expected to be encoded to prevent it from being discarded.
-Steve
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