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SubjectRe: [PATCH] crypto/testmgr: don't copy from source IV too much
On Thu, Sep 03, 2015 at 02:32:00PM +0300, Andrey Ryabinin wrote:
> While the destination buffer 'iv' is MAX_IVLEN size,
> the source 'template[i].iv' could be smaller. Thus
> copying it via memcpy() leads to invalid memory access.
> Use strlcpy() instead.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@odin.com>

Thanks for the patch. Unfortunately it's broken because the IV
is not a string and can contain NULs. So either fix it by using
the real ivsize, or change template[i].iv to a char array.

Cheers,
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