[Precise CVE-2013-3235] tipc: fix info leaks via msg_name in recv_msg/recv_stream

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Thu May 9 14:10:12 UTC 2013


From: Mathias Krause <minipli at googlemail.com>

CVE-2013-3235

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1172403

The code in set_orig_addr() does not initialize all of the members of
struct sockaddr_tipc when filling the sockaddr info -- namely the union
is only partly filled. This will make recv_msg() and recv_stream() --
the only users of this function -- leak kernel stack memory as the
msg_name member is a local variable in net/socket.c.

Additionally to that both recv_msg() and recv_stream() fail to update
the msg_namelen member to 0 while otherwise returning with 0, i.e.
"success". This is the case for, e.g., non-blocking sockets. This will
lead to a 128 byte kernel stack leak in net/socket.c.

Fix the first issue by initializing the memory of the union with
memset(0). Fix the second one by setting msg_namelen to 0 early as it
will be updated later if we're going to fill the msg_name member.

Cc: Jon Maloy <jon.maloy at ericsson.com>
Cc: Allan Stephens <allan.stephens at windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli at googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
(cherry picked from commit 60085c3d009b0df252547adb336d1ccca5ce52ec)

Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 net/tipc/socket.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/tipc/socket.c b/net/tipc/socket.c
index 42b8324..fdf34af 100644
--- a/net/tipc/socket.c
+++ b/net/tipc/socket.c
@@ -829,6 +829,7 @@ static void set_orig_addr(struct msghdr *m, struct tipc_msg *msg)
 	if (addr) {
 		addr->family = AF_TIPC;
 		addr->addrtype = TIPC_ADDR_ID;
+		memset(&addr->addr, 0, sizeof(addr->addr));
 		addr->addr.id.ref = msg_origport(msg);
 		addr->addr.id.node = msg_orignode(msg);
 		addr->addr.name.domain = 0;	/* could leave uninitialized */
@@ -948,6 +949,9 @@ static int recv_msg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct socket *sock,
 		goto exit;
 	}
 
+	/* will be updated in set_orig_addr() if needed */
+	m->msg_namelen = 0;
+
 	timeout = sock_rcvtimeo(sk, flags & MSG_DONTWAIT);
 restart:
 
@@ -1074,6 +1078,9 @@ static int recv_stream(struct kiocb *iocb, struct socket *sock,
 		goto exit;
 	}
 
+	/* will be updated in set_orig_addr() if needed */
+	m->msg_namelen = 0;
+
 	target = sock_rcvlowat(sk, flags & MSG_WAITALL, buf_len);
 	timeout = sock_rcvtimeo(sk, flags & MSG_DONTWAIT);
 restart:
-- 
1.8.1.2




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