Re: Fedora 7 - WPA2 - wpa_supplicant segfault

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Sat, 2007-06-02 at 17:15 +0000, Volker Braun wrote:
> The original wpa_supplicant-0.5.7-use-syslog.patch is horrible, that is a 
> wifi-remote exploit waiting to happen. Great that you caught that! 
> Somebody needs to rewrite this atrocity without sprinkling sprintf 
> around... I think you should file an urgent RH bugzilla asap.

That said; if anyone wants to take a shot at adding real syslog support
upstream, that would rock.  The problem is that we don't want NM to
capture the wpa_supplicant output like it used to, because that's icky.
Since wpa_supplicant is a daemon, it should be writing to syslog and
have configurable debug levels (as should NetworkManager).  Upstream
doesn't seem to have a lot of willpower to do this, but it greatly helps
debugging problems with NetworkManager.

Dan

> Volker
> 
> 
> On Sat, 02 Jun 2007 10:07:15 +0100, Jon Escombe wrote:
> > This is caused by the redhat wpa_supplicant-0.5.7-use-syslog.patch
> > overflowing a 2KBoutput buffer. The frame that's causing the error for
> > me is 1400 bytes. When displayed in a "RX EAPOL - hexdump(len=1400): 00
> > 00 00" string, this requires a little over 4KB. This patch in this mail
> > just increases the buffer size to 8KB, however I suspect there ought to
> > be some boundary checking going on.
> > Dan, is reporting here sufficient, or would a bugzilla entry help get
> > this fixed?
> 
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