* Patch "USB: usbfs: fix potential infoleak in devio" has been added to the 3.14-stable tree
@ 2016-08-18 10:37 gregkh
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From: gregkh @ 2016-08-18 10:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: kangjielu, ciwillia, gregkh, kjlu; +Cc: stable, stable-commits
This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
USB: usbfs: fix potential infoleak in devio
to the 3.14-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
usb-usbfs-fix-potential-infoleak-in-devio.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.
>From 681fef8380eb818c0b845fca5d2ab1dcbab114ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kangjie Lu <kangjielu@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 3 May 2016 16:32:16 -0400
Subject: USB: usbfs: fix potential infoleak in devio
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From: Kangjie Lu <kangjielu@gmail.com>
commit 681fef8380eb818c0b845fca5d2ab1dcbab114ee upstream.
The stack object “ci” has a total size of 8 bytes. Its last 3 bytes
are padding bytes which are not initialized and leaked to userland
via “copy_to_user”.
Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@gatech.edu>
Signed-off-by: Charles (Chas) Williams <ciwillia@brocade.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/usb/core/devio.c | 9 +++++----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/usb/core/devio.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/devio.c
@@ -1104,10 +1104,11 @@ static int proc_getdriver(struct dev_sta
static int proc_connectinfo(struct dev_state *ps, void __user *arg)
{
- struct usbdevfs_connectinfo ci = {
- .devnum = ps->dev->devnum,
- .slow = ps->dev->speed == USB_SPEED_LOW
- };
+ struct usbdevfs_connectinfo ci;
+
+ memset(&ci, 0, sizeof(ci));
+ ci.devnum = ps->dev->devnum;
+ ci.slow = ps->dev->speed == USB_SPEED_LOW;
if (copy_to_user(arg, &ci, sizeof(ci)))
return -EFAULT;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from kangjielu@gmail.com are
queue-3.14/usb-usbfs-fix-potential-infoleak-in-devio.patch
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