This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net: ax25: fix information leak to userland
to the 2.6.36-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
net-ax25-fix-information-leak-to-userland.patch
and it can be found in the queue-2.6.36 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From 1f61298146dfba86e2bfc915ed4a55268fe8fb9c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vasiliy Kulikov <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2010 10:14:33 -0800
Subject: net: ax25: fix information leak to userland
From: Vasiliy Kulikov <[email protected]>
[ 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 <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
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;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-2.6.36/net-ax25-fix-information-leak-to-userland.patch
queue-2.6.36/net-packet-fix-information-leak-to-userland.patch
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