On Wednesday, February 28 2007 3:01:31 pm Paul Moore wrote: > The current CIPSO engine has a problem where it does not verify that the > given sensitivity level has a valid CIPSO mapping when the "std" CIPSO DOI > type is used. The end result is that bad packets are sent on the wire > which should have never been sent in the first place. This patch corrects > this problem by verifying the sensitivity level mapping similar to what is > done with the category mapping. This patch also changes the returned error > code in this case to -EPERM to better match what the category mapping > verification code returns. > > Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > net/ipv4/cipso_ipv4.c | 7 ++++--- > 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
I probably should have been more clear in the original patch posting ... this is a bugfix patch which I believe should go into 2.6.21 (as well as the -stable tree, but I know they like to see it hit Linus' tree first). -- paul moore linux security @ hp - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
