Re: Sentence in DSA 1479 proper English?
Helge Kreutzmann wrote:
> ADLAB discovered a possible memory overrun in the ISDN subsystem that
> may permit a local user to overwrite kernel memory leading by issuing
> ioctls with unterminated data.
>
> Is "may permit [someone] leading by issuing [something]" proper
> English? If so, could you explain in different words what "to lead by"
> means (I haven't found it in my dictionaries).
The English is wrong: s/leading //
ADLAB discovered a possible memory overrun in the ISDN subsystem that
may permit a local user to overwrite kernel memory by issuing
ioctls with unterminated data.
Compare "http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-6151",
which describes it like this:
The isdn_ioctl function in isdn_common.c in Linux kernel 2.6.23
allows local users to cause a denial of service via a crafted
ioctl struct in which iocts is not null terminated, which triggers
a buffer overflow.
--
JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package
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