This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net: ax25: fix information leak to userland harder
to the 2.6.37-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-harder.patch
and it can be found in the queue-2.6.37 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From 5b919f833d9d60588d026ad82d17f17e8872c7a9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2011 00:34:49 -0800
Subject: net: ax25: fix information leak to userland harder
From: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
commit 5b919f833d9d60588d026ad82d17f17e8872c7a9 upstream.
Commit fe10ae53384e48c51996941b7720ee16995cbcb7 adds a memset() to clear
the structure being sent back to userspace, but accidentally used the
wrong size.
Reported-by: Brad Spengler <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[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
@@ -1392,7 +1392,7 @@ static int ax25_getname(struct socket *s
ax25_cb *ax25;
int err = 0;
- memset(fsa, 0, sizeof(fsa));
+ memset(fsa, 0, sizeof(*fsa));
lock_sock(sk);
ax25 = ax25_sk(sk);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected]
are
queue-2.6.37/net-ax25-fix-information-leak-to-userland-harder.patch
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