Re: FYI: Bug in ICMP destination unreachable handling fixed

"Coleman Brumley" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.hardware.microcontrollers.ethernut
Organization PolarSoft, Inc.
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Ole,

Can you please post the patch here as well?

Coleman

> -----Original Message-----
> From: en-nut-discussion-bounces-inJ12LbcDfezQB+pC5nmwQ@public.gmane.org [mailto:en-nut-discussion-
> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Ole Reinhardt
> Sent: Monday, September 28, 2015 7:57 AM
> To: Ethernut User Chat (English) <[email protected]>
> Subject: [En-Nut-Discussion] FYI: Bug in ICMP destination unreachable
> handling fixed
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> in SVN trunk r6135 I fix a bug in the handling of ICMP code 3 messages
> (destination unreachable). It was caused by missing parenthesis in pointer
> arithmetic.
> 
> As result, NutTcpFindSocket() (in NutIcmpUnreach()) was fed with invalid
> data. In worst case this could have led to sockets beeing abborting
accidently,
> in most cases nothing happened at all, as no matching socket could be
found.
> 
> But even worse, this bug also could result in crashes, if the pointer
arithmetic
> resulted in a read out of the physical memory bounds.
> 
> It might be a good idea to update Nut/OS in your projects which rely on a
> correct ICMP handling.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Ole
> 
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