From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932637Ab2GAS1m (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Jul 2012 14:27:42 -0400 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:46917 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755867Ab2GASQZ (ORCPT ); Sun, 1 Jul 2012 14:16:25 -0400 Message-Id: <20120701172006.992250192@decadent.org.uk> User-Agent: quilt/0.60-1 Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2012 18:20:08 +0100 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Olaf Hering , Marcus Meissner , Sebastian Krahmer , "K. Y. Srinivasan" , Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: [ 02/48] Tools: hv: verify origin of netlink connector message In-Reply-To: <20120701172006.535271340@decadent.org.uk> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2001:470:1f08:1539:21c:bfff:fe03:f805 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.2-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Olaf Hering commit bcc2c9c3fff859e0eb019fe6fec26f9b8eba795c upstream. The SuSE security team suggested to use recvfrom instead of recv to be certain that the connector message is originated from kernel. CVE-2012-2669 Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering Signed-off-by: Marcus Meissner Signed-off-by: Sebastian Krahmer Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c | 10 +++++++--- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c b/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c index 146fd61..d9834b3 100644 --- a/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c +++ b/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c @@ -701,14 +701,18 @@ int main(void) pfd.fd = fd; while (1) { + struct sockaddr *addr_p = (struct sockaddr *) &addr; + socklen_t addr_l = sizeof(addr); pfd.events = POLLIN; pfd.revents = 0; poll(&pfd, 1, -1); - len = recv(fd, kvp_recv_buffer, sizeof(kvp_recv_buffer), 0); + len = recvfrom(fd, kvp_recv_buffer, sizeof(kvp_recv_buffer), 0, + addr_p, &addr_l); - if (len < 0) { - syslog(LOG_ERR, "recv failed; error:%d", len); + if (len < 0 || addr.nl_pid) { + syslog(LOG_ERR, "recvfrom failed; pid:%u error:%d %s", + addr.nl_pid, errno, strerror(errno)); close(fd); return -1; }