Re: Re: Problems in automatic crash analysis frameworks

[Marc Deslauriers <marc.deslauriers () canonical com>]

On 2015-04-14 08:29 PM, Michael Samuel wrote:
> On 15 April 2015 at 07:08, Tavis Ormandy <taviso () google com> wrote:
>
> > > > > import socket
> > > > > socket.socket(socket.AF_UNIX, socket.SOCK_STREAM).bind('test\ntest')
> > > > > sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_UNIX, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
> > > > > sock.bind('/tmp/foo\nbar')
> > > > > sock.listen(1)
> >
> > $ grep -A1 foo /proc/net/unix
> > 0000000000000000: 00000002 00000000 00010000 0001 01 4772228 /tmp/foo
> > bar
>
> This is a Linux kernel flaw/bug right?  It's a machine-readable
> newline-delimited
> /proc file, so it needs to escape newlines if they're valid data.
>
> Regards,
>   Michael

That appears to have been previously brought up here:

http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg320556.html

Marc.