[PATCH 087/105] packet: packet_getname_spkt: make sure string is always 0-terminated

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Fri Jun 28 18:51:49 UTC 2013


3.8.13.4 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman at redhat.com>

[ Upstream commit 2dc85bf323515e59e15dfa858d1472bb25cad0fe ]

uaddr->sa_data is exactly of size 14, which is hard-coded here and
passed as a size argument to strncpy(). A device name can be of size
IFNAMSIZ (== 16), meaning we might leave the destination string
unterminated. Thus, use strlcpy() and also sizeof() while we're
at it. We need to memset the data area beforehand, since strlcpy
does not padd the remaining buffer with zeroes for user space, so
that we do not possibly leak anything.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 net/packet/af_packet.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/packet/af_packet.c b/net/packet/af_packet.c
index d376545..dbddeb4 100644
--- a/net/packet/af_packet.c
+++ b/net/packet/af_packet.c
@@ -2769,12 +2769,11 @@ static int packet_getname_spkt(struct socket *sock, struct sockaddr *uaddr,
 		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 
 	uaddr->sa_family = AF_PACKET;
+	memset(uaddr->sa_data, 0, sizeof(uaddr->sa_data));
 	rcu_read_lock();
 	dev = dev_get_by_index_rcu(sock_net(sk), pkt_sk(sk)->ifindex);
 	if (dev)
-		strncpy(uaddr->sa_data, dev->name, 14);
-	else
-		memset(uaddr->sa_data, 0, 14);
+		strlcpy(uaddr->sa_data, dev->name, sizeof(uaddr->sa_data));
 	rcu_read_unlock();
 	*uaddr_len = sizeof(*uaddr);
 
-- 
1.8.1.2





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