> >The CERT site lists the status of NetBSD's drivers with respect to this
> >vulnerablity as "unknown".  Does anyone know whether our ethernet
> >drivers suffer from the the listed vulnerability?
> >
> >  http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/412115
> >
> >The above url details the problem.
> 
> For most modern chips this is a non-issue because they do automatic
> padding (now what they pad with, god knows; I hope it is zeros)...
> For the most popular vintage chips (eg. lance) we pad zeros manually.
> There are others that might be broken (3c501).

And a pile of windows (or was it netware - ODI anyway) ones that pad
with the data following the last buffer fragment - could fall of the
end of the page into unmapped memory when they were being using
in a Unix kernel.....

	David

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David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk