[PATCH 7/8] char: synclink_gt: fix information leak to userland

[PATCH 7/8] char: synclink_gt: fix information leak to userland

[Vasiliy Kulikov]

Structures tmp_params and new_line are copied to userland with some padding
fields unitialized.  It leads to leaking of stack memory.

Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@gmail.com>
---
 Compile tested.

 drivers/char/synclink_gt.c |    3 +++
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/synclink_gt.c b/drivers/char/synclink_gt.c
index 1746d91..c3c2cf8 100644
--- a/drivers/char/synclink_gt.c
+++ b/drivers/char/synclink_gt.c
@@ -1132,6 +1132,7 @@ static long get_params32(struct slgt_info *info, struct MGSL_PARAMS32 __user *us
 	struct MGSL_PARAMS32 tmp_params;
 
 	DBGINFO(("%s get_params32\n", info->device_name));
+	memset(&tmp_params, 0, sizeof(tmp_params));
 	tmp_params.mode            = (compat_ulong_t)info->params.mode;
 	tmp_params.loopback        = info->params.loopback;
 	tmp_params.flags           = info->params.flags;
@@ -1617,6 +1618,8 @@ static int hdlcdev_ioctl(struct net_device *dev, struct ifreq *ifr, int cmd)
 	if (cmd != SIOCWANDEV)
 		return hdlc_ioctl(dev, ifr, cmd);
 
+	memset(&new_line, 0, sizeof(new_line));
+
 	switch(ifr->ifr_settings.type) {
 	case IF_GET_IFACE: /* return current sync_serial_settings */
 
-- 
1.7.0.4

Re: [PATCH 7/8] char: synclink_gt: fix information leak to userland

[Paul Fulghum]

Acked-by: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>

On 10/17/2010 8:41 AM, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:
> Structures tmp_params and new_line are copied to userland with some padding
> fields unitialized.  It leads to leaking of stack memory.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@gmail.com>


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