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Allow only IPv4 addresses in sendto() for TCP on AF_INET sockets
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Authored by tuexen on May 13 2020, 10:06 PM.
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Summary

Without this patch IPv4-mapped IPv6 addresses would be accepted in sendto() on a TCP socket created for AF_INET.

This problem was found by looking at syzkaller reproducers for some other problems.

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