From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@gmail.com>
Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Joerg Reuter <jreuter@yaina.de>,
"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 18:00:06 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101031180005.GA26588@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1288545022-16393-1-git-send-email-segooon@gmail.com>
On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 08:10:22PM +0300, Vasiliy Kulikov wrote:
> 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>
Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-31 18:00 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 [this message]
2010-10-31 18:08 ` Eric Dumazet
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