[Lucid CVE-2012-6546 1/2] atm: fix info leak via getsockname()
Luis Henriques
luis.henriques at canonical.com
Tue Mar 26 17:18:32 UTC 2013
From: Mathias Krause <minipli at googlemail.com>
CVE-2012-6546
BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1156759
The ATM code fails to initialize the two padding bytes of struct
sockaddr_atmpvc inserted for alignment. Add an explicit memset(0)
before filling the structure to avoid the info leak.
Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli at googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
(back ported from commit 3c0c5cfdcd4d69ffc4b9c0907cec99039f30a50a)
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
Conflicts:
net/atm/pvc.c
---
net/atm/pvc.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/net/atm/pvc.c b/net/atm/pvc.c
index d4c0245..523c21a 100644
--- a/net/atm/pvc.c
+++ b/net/atm/pvc.c
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ static int pvc_getname(struct socket *sock,struct sockaddr *sockaddr,
if (!vcc->dev || !test_bit(ATM_VF_ADDR,&vcc->flags)) return -ENOTCONN;
*sockaddr_len = sizeof(struct sockaddr_atmpvc);
addr = (struct sockaddr_atmpvc *) sockaddr;
+ memset(addr, 0, sizeof(*addr));
addr->sap_family = AF_ATMPVC;
addr->sap_addr.itf = vcc->dev->number;
addr->sap_addr.vpi = vcc->vpi;
--
1.8.1.2
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