From: Marcel Holtmann <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 03 May 2007 14:27:16 +0200
> Hi Dave,
>
> > > When the user passes in MSG_TRUNC the skb is used after getting freed.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <[email protected]>
> > > Signed-off-by: David Howells <[email protected]>
> >
> > Ugh, good catch, applied :-)
>
> it seems this could be easily exploited and is at least a local DoS. It
> should be a candidate for the -stable kernel.
The MSG_TRUNC change is in 2.6.22 GIT only.
You might want to check such things before making such statements. :-/
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