From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755031Ab1AFAut (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jan 2011 19:50:49 -0500 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:35730 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754249Ab1AFA3z (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Jan 2011 19:29:55 -0500 X-Mailbox-Line: From gregkh@clark.site Wed Jan 5 16:23:02 2011 Message-Id: <20110106002302.578278251@clark.site> User-Agent: quilt/0.48-11.2 Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2011 16:22:42 -0800 From: Greg KH To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org Cc: stable-review@kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Vasiliy Kulikov , "David S. Miller" Subject: [063/152] net: ax25: fix information leak to userland In-Reply-To: <20110106002500.GA3172@kroah.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 2.6.36-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Vasiliy Kulikov [ Upstream commit fe10ae53384e48c51996941b7720ee16995cbcb7 ] Sometimes ax25_getname() doesn't initialize all members of fsa_digipeater field of fsa struct, also the struct has padding bytes between sax25_call and sax25_ndigis fields. This structure is then copied to userland. It leads to leaking of contents of kernel stack memory. Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- net/ax25/af_ax25.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/net/ax25/af_ax25.c +++ b/net/ax25/af_ax25.c @@ -1392,6 +1392,7 @@ static int ax25_getname(struct socket *s ax25_cb *ax25; int err = 0; + memset(fsa, 0, sizeof(fsa)); lock_sock(sk); ax25 = ax25_sk(sk); @@ -1403,7 +1404,6 @@ static int ax25_getname(struct socket *s fsa->fsa_ax25.sax25_family = AF_AX25; fsa->fsa_ax25.sax25_call = ax25->dest_addr; - fsa->fsa_ax25.sax25_ndigis = 0; if (ax25->digipeat != NULL) { ndigi = ax25->digipeat->ndigi;