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* [PATCH] net: ax25: fix information leak to userland harder
@ 2011-01-12  5:40 Kees Cook
  2011-01-12  8:34 ` David Miller
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: Kees Cook @ 2011-01-12  5:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel
  Cc: Brad Spengler, Vasiliy Kulikov, David S. Miller,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org Joerg Reuter, Ralf Baechle

Commit fe10ae53384e48c51996941b7720ee16995cbcb7 adds a memset() to clear
the structure being sent back to userspace, but accidentally used the
wrong size.

Reported-by: Brad Spengler <spender@grsecurity.net>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
---
 net/ax25/af_ax25.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ax25/af_ax25.c b/net/ax25/af_ax25.c
index bb86d29..6da5dae 100644
--- a/net/ax25/af_ax25.c
+++ b/net/ax25/af_ax25.c
@@ -1392,7 +1392,7 @@ static int ax25_getname(struct socket *sock, struct sockaddr *uaddr,
 	ax25_cb *ax25;
 	int err = 0;
 
-	memset(fsa, 0, sizeof(fsa));
+	memset(fsa, 0, sizeof(*fsa));
 	lock_sock(sk);
 	ax25 = ax25_sk(sk);
 
-- 
1.7.2.3


-- 
Kees Cook
Ubuntu Security Team

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* Re: [PATCH] net: ax25: fix information leak to userland harder
  2011-01-12  5:40 [PATCH] net: ax25: fix information leak to userland harder Kees Cook
@ 2011-01-12  8:34 ` David Miller
  2011-01-12  8:35   ` David Miller
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: David Miller @ 2011-01-12  8:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: kees.cook; +Cc: linux-kernel, spender, segooon, jreuter, ralf

From: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2011 21:40:22 -0800

> Commit fe10ae53384e48c51996941b7720ee16995cbcb7 adds a memset() to clear
> the structure being sent back to userspace, but accidentally used the
> wrong size.
> 
> Reported-by: Brad Spengler <spender@grsecurity.net>
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>

Applied, thanks.

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* Re: [PATCH] net: ax25: fix information leak to userland harder
  2011-01-12  8:34 ` David Miller
@ 2011-01-12  8:35   ` David Miller
  2011-01-12 14:01     ` Kees Cook
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 4+ messages in thread
From: David Miller @ 2011-01-12  8:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: kees.cook; +Cc: linux-kernel, spender, segooon, jreuter, ralf


BTW, in the future please CC: netdev@vger.kernel.org on all networking
patches.

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* Re: [PATCH] net: ax25: fix information leak to userland harder
  2011-01-12  8:35   ` David Miller
@ 2011-01-12 14:01     ` Kees Cook
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Kees Cook @ 2011-01-12 14:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: David Miller; +Cc: linux-kernel, spender, segooon, jreuter, ralf

Hi David,

On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 12:35:31AM -0800, David Miller wrote:
> BTW, in the future please CC: netdev@vger.kernel.org on all networking
> patches.

Yeah, I meant to, but I think my mail client ate the address somehow. Sorry about
that!

-Kees

-- 
Kees Cook
Ubuntu Security Team

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