From: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
To: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Brad Spengler <spender@grsecurity.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] xfrm_user: fix info leak in copy_to_user_tmpl()
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 09:26:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120920072608.GB4221@secunet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1348090423-32665-5-git-send-email-minipli@googlemail.com>
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 11:33:41PM +0200, Mathias Krause wrote:
> The memory used for the template copy is a local stack variable. As
> struct xfrm_user_tmpl contains multiple holes added by the compiler for
> alignment, not initializing the memory will lead to leaking stack bytes
> to userland. Add an explicit memset(0) to avoid the info leak.
>
> Initial version of the patch by Brad Spengler.
>
> Cc: Brad Spengler <spender@grsecurity.net>
> Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Patches 1-4:
Acked-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-20 7:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-19 21:33 [PATCH 0/6] xfrm_user info leaks Mathias Krause
2012-09-19 21:33 ` [PATCH 1/6] xfrm_user: fix info leak in copy_to_user_auth() Mathias Krause
2012-09-19 21:33 ` [PATCH 2/6] xfrm_user: fix info leak in copy_to_user_state() Mathias Krause
2012-09-19 21:33 ` [PATCH 3/6] xfrm_user: fix info leak in copy_to_user_policy() Mathias Krause
2012-09-19 21:33 ` [PATCH 4/6] xfrm_user: fix info leak in copy_to_user_tmpl() Mathias Krause
2012-09-20 7:26 ` Steffen Klassert [this message]
2012-09-19 21:33 ` [PATCH 5/6] xfrm_user: ensure user supplied esn replay window is valid Mathias Krause
2012-09-19 22:38 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-09-20 6:12 ` Mathias Krause
2012-09-20 6:22 ` [PATCH v2] " Mathias Krause
2012-09-20 7:05 ` [PATCH 5/6] " Steffen Klassert
2012-09-20 7:37 ` Mathias Krause
2012-09-20 20:01 ` [PATCH v3 5/7] " Mathias Krause
2012-09-20 7:13 ` [PATCH 5/6] " Mathias Krause
2012-09-19 21:33 ` [PATCH 6/6] xfrm_user: don't copy esn replay window twice for new states Mathias Krause
2012-09-20 7:27 ` Steffen Klassert
2012-09-20 22:09 ` [PATCH 0/6] xfrm_user info leaks David Miller
2012-09-21 5:37 ` Mathias Krause
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