Re: [PATCH 1/2] audit: fix NUL handling in untrusted strings

[Steve Grubb]

On Thursday 11 September 2008 14:10:12 Miloslav TrmaÄ wrote:
> > As a side note I'm concerned there may be places in the user audit
> > code which treat string data as null terminated (at least that is my
> > recollection).
>
> Yes, auditd adds a NUL terminator to the audit record, and then treats
> it as a regular NUL-terminated string; if the audit record contains an
> embedded NUL byte, the rest of the record is discarded by auditd.

In every case where this occurs (kernel or user space), the field values are 
expected to be encoded to prevent it from being discarded.

-Steve
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