Thank you for clarifying.
-- Cryo:William J. Coldwell ARIN:WC25/AS7769 PGP:0xF97CC215/0x5E9944455 Warped, Inc. warped.com Founder/CTO 661-WARPED1 @warped @deadjournal NetBSD netbsd.org/pkgsrc.org President,Project Security,Social Media "Put on 3D glasses, otherwise you only see in 1½D.” [self opinion]; > On Sep 9, 2016, at 04:06, Martin Husemann <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Fri, Sep 09, 2016 at 04:00:56AM -0500, William J. Coldwell wrote: >> Are these overflows a security issue? >> Like giving up valid kernel memory. > > No security issue. They just record the 64bit version of the msghdr > structure (which has just been passed in from userland anyway) instead > of the 32bit one, and the decoder in kdump can not handle that. > > Martin
