kernel/audit.c control character detection is off-by-one
Hello, According to my understanding there is an off-by-one bug in the function: audit_string_contains_control() in: kernel/audit.c Patch is included. I do not know from how many places the function is called from, but for example, SELinux Access Vector Cache tries to log untrusted filenames via call path: avc_audit() audit_log_untrustedstring() audit_log_n_untrustedstring() audit_string_contains_control() If audit_string_contains_control() detects control characters, then the string is hex-encoded. But the hex=0x7f dec=127, DEL-character, is not detected. I guess this could have at least some minor security implications, since a user can create a filename with 0x7f in it, causing logged filename to possibly look different when someone reads it on the terminal. Signed-off-by: Vesa-Matti Kari <vmkari@cc.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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