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* [PATCH] econet: Fix econet_getname() leak
@ 2009-08-06 13:48 Eric Dumazet
  2009-08-06 20:09 ` David Miller
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Eric Dumazet @ 2009-08-06 13:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: David S. Miller; +Cc: Linux Netdev List

econet_getname() can leak kernel memory to user.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
---
diff --git a/net/econet/af_econet.c b/net/econet/af_econet.c
index e114da7..0e0254f 100644
--- a/net/econet/af_econet.c
+++ b/net/econet/af_econet.c
@@ -520,6 +520,7 @@ static int econet_getname(struct socket *sock, struct sockaddr *uaddr,
 	if (peer)
 		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 
+	memset(sec, 0, sizeof(*sec));
 	mutex_lock(&econet_mutex);
 
 	sk = sock->sk;

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* Re: [PATCH] econet: Fix econet_getname() leak
  2009-08-06 13:48 [PATCH] econet: Fix econet_getname() leak Eric Dumazet
@ 2009-08-06 20:09 ` David Miller
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: David Miller @ 2009-08-06 20:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: eric.dumazet; +Cc: netdev

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:48:36 +0200

> econet_getname() can leak kernel memory to user.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>

Applied to net-2.6

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