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Commit 47d9c776 authored by Matt Mackall's avatar Matt Mackall Committed by Adrian Bunk
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random: fix bound check ordering (CVE-2007-3105)



If root raised the default wakeup threshold over the size of the
output pool, the pool transfer function could overflow the stack with
RNG bytes, causing a DoS or potential privilege escalation.

(Bug reported by the PaX Team <pageexec@freemail.hu>)

Signed-off-by: default avatarMatt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
parent 46f6fdb6
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