From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@gmail.com>
Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Joerg Reuter <jreuter@yaina.de>,
Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
linux-hams@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] net: ax25: fix information leak to userland
Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 19:08:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1288548514.2660.70.camel@edumazet-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1288545022-16393-1-git-send-email-segooon@gmail.com>
Le dimanche 31 octobre 2010 à 20:10 +0300, Vasiliy Kulikov a écrit :
> Sometimes ax25_getname() doesn't initialize all members of fsa_digipeater
> field of fsa struct. This structure is then copied to userland. It leads to
> leaking of contents of kernel stack memory. We have to initialize them to zero.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@gmail.com>
> ---
> net/ax25/af_ax25.c | 1 +
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/ax25/af_ax25.c b/net/ax25/af_ax25.c
> index 26eaebf..a324d83 100644
> --- a/net/ax25/af_ax25.c
> +++ b/net/ax25/af_ax25.c
> @@ -1392,6 +1392,7 @@ static int ax25_getname(struct socket *sock, struct sockaddr *uaddr,
> ax25_cb *ax25;
> int err = 0;
>
> + memset(&fsa->fsa_digipeater, 0, sizeof(fsa->fsa_digipeater));
> lock_sock(sk);
> ax25 = ax25_sk(sk);
>
If you really want to fix this for good, please do it completely ?
sa_family_t is a short
ax25_address is 7 bytes.
Therefore, there is a hole before sax25_ndigis.
struct sockaddr_ax25 {
sa_family_t sax25_family;
ax25_address sax25_call;
<hole>
int sax25_ndigis;
/* Digipeater ax25_address sets follow */
};
struct full_sockaddr_ax25 {
struct sockaddr_ax25 fsa_ax25;
ax25_address fsa_digipeater[AX25_MAX_DIGIS];
};
So a correct patch is the following one. Note AX25 is probably used by
nobody at all, so a full memset() is not performance critical in this
path.
diff --git a/net/ax25/af_ax25.c b/net/ax25/af_ax25.c
index 26eaebf..6da5dae 100644
--- a/net/ax25/af_ax25.c
+++ b/net/ax25/af_ax25.c
@@ -1392,6 +1392,7 @@ static int ax25_getname(struct socket *sock, struct sockaddr *uaddr,
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 *sock, struct sockaddr *uaddr,
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;
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-31 18:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-31 17:10 [PATCH 1/3] net: ax25: fix information leak to userland Vasiliy Kulikov
2010-10-31 18:00 ` Ralf Baechle
2010-10-31 18:08 ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
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