[Lucid CVE 3/3] xfrm_user: fix info leak in copy_to_user_state()
Luis Henriques
luis.henriques at canonical.com
Fri Mar 22 11:12:45 UTC 2013
From: Mathias Krause <minipli at googlemail.com>
CVE-2012-6537
BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1156716
The memory reserved to dump the xfrm state includes the padding bytes of
struct xfrm_usersa_info added by the compiler for alignment (7 for
amd64, 3 for i386). Add an explicit memset(0) before filling the buffer
to avoid the info leak.
Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli at googlemail.com>
Acked-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert at secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
(cherry picked from commit f778a636713a435d3a922c60b1622a91136560c1)
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c
index 0926b00..a8d83c4 100644
--- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c
+++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c
@@ -506,6 +506,7 @@ out:
static void copy_to_user_state(struct xfrm_state *x, struct xfrm_usersa_info *p)
{
+ memset(p, 0, sizeof(*p));
memcpy(&p->id, &x->id, sizeof(p->id));
memcpy(&p->sel, &x->sel, sizeof(p->sel));
memcpy(&p->lft, &x->lft, sizeof(p->lft));
--
1.8.1.2
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