bug in sendmsg and recvmsg on linux in libc-2.0.95
Andreas Jaeger
aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de
Thu Apr 1 00:00:00 GMT 1999
>>>>> Stig Venaas writes:
Stig> In glibc-2.0.95/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/sendmsg.c there's a check
Stig> for cm->cmsg_type == SCM_CREDS. This is done without checking
cm-> cmsg_level. AFAIK, cmsg_type == 2 does only mean SCM_CREDS at
Stig> the socket level, that is cmsg_level == 1 (SOL_SOCKET). The same
Stig> goes for glibc-2.0.95/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/recvmsg.c.
2.0.95 is quite old, the current glibc test release is 2.0.109 and
doesn't contain the mentioned files and code at all anymore.
All the best for 1999,
Andreas
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