[ovs-dev] [PATCH] learn: Fix buffer overflow in parsing "learn" action strings.

Alex Wang alexw at nicira.com
Fri May 29 23:28:08 UTC 2015


Thx a lot for the explanation,

Really intrigued me a lot~!  spent time writing simple example and gdb
monitor it.  Now understand what you mean~

Thanks,
Alex Wang,

On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 3:15 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:

> On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 02:51:42PM -0700, Jesse Gross wrote:
> > On Fri, May 29, 2015 at 10:40 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 09:12:38AM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > >> Don't panic, this is not a remote buffer overflow, only a bug in a
> program
> > >> parsing its input from the command line or a file.
> > >>
> > >> Found by inspection.
> > >>
> > >> Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>
> > >
> > > This could still use a review.
> >
> > I guess this is probably actually fixed by the Geneve changes that I
> > pushed yesterday although without the tests.
>
> Fair enough.
>
> I fixed up what remained and added the tests:
>         http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/dev/2015-May/055774.html
> _______________________________________________
> dev mailing list
> dev at openvswitch.org
> http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
>



More information about the dev mailing list