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Re: Linux kernel scm_send local DoS
From: "Pavel Kankovsky" <peak () argo troja mff cuni cz>
Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004 16:54:39 +0100 (CET)
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, Paul Starzetz wrote:
The Linux kernel provides a powerful socket API to user applications. Among other functions sockets provide an universal way for IPC and user- kernel communication. The socket layer uses several logical sublayers. One of the layers, so called auxiliary message layer (or scm layer), augments the socket API by an universal user-kernel message passing capability (see recvfrom(2) for more details on auxiliary messages).
More nasties might be lurking nearby (at least in 2.4): - additional, almost identical, copies of cmsg parsing code appear in ip_cmsg_send() (net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c) and datagram_send_ctl() (net/ipv6/datagram.c) - sys_sendmsg() (net/socket.c) is willing to allocate almost arbitrary large blocks of kernel memory --Pavel Kankovsky aka Peak [ Boycott Microsoft--http://www.vcnet.com/bms ] "Resistance is futile. Open your source code and prepare for assimilation."
Current thread:
- Linux kernel scm_send local DoS Paul Starzetz (Dec 14)
- Re: Linux kernel scm_send local DoS even multiplexed (Dec 15)
- Re: Linux kernel scm_send local DoS Paul Starzetz (Dec 15)
- Re: Linux kernel scm_send local DoS even multiplexed (Dec 15)
- Re: Linux kernel scm_send local DoS gadgeteer (Dec 15)
- Re: [Full-Disclosure] Re: Linux kernel scm_send local DoS Valdis . Kletnieks (Dec 23)
- Re: Linux kernel scm_send local DoS Paul Starzetz (Dec 15)
- Re: Linux kernel scm_send local DoS Pavel Kankovsky (Dec 23)
- Re: Linux kernel scm_send local DoS even multiplexed (Dec 15)