On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 01:41:23PM -0500, Leo Bicknell wrote:
> In a message written on Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 03:56:23AM -0800, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> > ok, these three drivers behave as follows:
> >
> > "ed" pads with whatever is left in the transmit buffer from
> > earlier transmissions;
> > "vr" pads with whatever is available in the mbuf after the actual data;
>
> I point out both of these are security risks. Granted, fairly
I know, that is why i mentioned that. In fact i think i raised the
subject long ago about this misbehaviour in some driver, maybe "dc".
0's or 1's are perfectly fine as padding, no need to put random
stuff, especially given that from the header fields it is in most
cases pretty obvious to find out what is the actual payload.
cheers
luigi
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