[ovs-dev] [PATCH] flow: Fix wild pointer dereference in flow_compose().
Ben Pfaff
blp at nicira.com
Wed Aug 1 20:26:54 UTC 2012
On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 01:19:56PM -0700, Ethan Jackson wrote:
> The 'ip' variable in flow_compose() points to some memory allocated
> in an ofpbuf. The ofpbuf is modified without making the necessary
> updates to the location of 'ip' causing a potential wild memory
> access.
>
> Found by inspection.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ethan Jackson <ethan at nicira.com>
Looks good.
This is a fairly old bug, I think, so should you backport this?
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