[issue35050] Off-by-one bug in AF_ALG

[Christian Heimes]

Christian Heimes <lists at cheimes.de> added the comment:

> The Python code does not create buffer overflow, it's just that the Linux kernel will always reject names which are too long.

The Kernel doesn't have a direct length restriction. It just ensures that type and name are NULL terminated. Other code inside the Kernel rejects unknown type and name values.

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