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[PING][PATCH][BZ #15698] Fix memory overrun in getifaddrs_internal.


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On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 02:11:47PM +0100, OndÅej BÃlka wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 01:35:30PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Tuesday 08 October 2013 12:57:38 OndÅej BÃlka wrote:
> > > Hi, a code at https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=15698
> > > contains a simple off-by-one error when preflen is divisible by 8.
> > > 
> > > Following code should fix this, as preflen is unsigned I added check for
> > > zero len to be sure we do not cause underflow.
> > > 
> > > OK to commit?
> > 
> > test case ?
> > -mike
> 
> That is difficult, after browsing code a prefixlen is read from kernel 
> netlink interface. To trigger this bug we would need to create a dummy
> interface which needs root.



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