[radvd-devel-l] Buffer overflow

[Pekka Savola]

On Mon, 25 Jan 2010, Jan Görig wrote:
> because last solution wasn't very clear, I have re-made previous patch. 
> Current version is reallocating memory when necessary.
>
> But there is another issue. Bug reporter wrote that he needs 65k routes. This 
> number is too large and in current configuration format is very hard to 
> maintain it. So there is a question, if this is only individual problem or is 
> this request for more intelligent configure options.

I don't think this can be made to work this way -- each prefix 
information option requires 32B and stuffing 64K of them would 
require, at 1500B link MTU, about 1400 router advertisement messages!

I'll follow up on this in RH bugzilla.

>
> Jan Gorig
>
> Dne 14.1.2010 12:22, Jan Görig napsal(a):
>>  Hi,
>>
>>  there was reported bug in Fedora bugzilla about buffer overflow while
>>  advertising too many prefixes.
>>  (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=554125).
>>
>>  I have added checking and readable error message. Patch included.
>>
>>  Jan Gorig
>
>

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