From 46960cebc16c926ab025bbbc62a682dd826ad404 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Miklos Szeredi Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 09:05:00 +0000 Subject: security fix --- ChangeLog | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'ChangeLog') diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog index fe88ba4..698b3c5 100644 --- a/ChangeLog +++ b/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,11 @@ +2005-06-02 Miklos Szeredi + + * Fix serious information leak: if the filesystem returns a short + byte count to a read request, and there are non-zero number of + pages which are not filled at all, these pages will not be zeroed. + Hence the user can read out previous memory contents. Found by + Sven Tantau. + 2005-05-27 Miklos Szeredi * Add "readdir_ino" mount option, which tries to fill in the d_ino -- cgit v1.2.3