[PATCH 3.8 28/91] unix_diag: fix info leak

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Fri Nov 8 02:14:43 UTC 2013


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

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From: Mathias Krause <minipli at googlemail.com>

[ Upstream commit 6865d1e834be84ddd5808d93d5035b492346c64a ]

When filling the netlink message we miss to wipe the pad field,
therefore leak one byte of heap memory to userland. Fix this by
setting pad to 0.

Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli at googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 net/unix/diag.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/net/unix/diag.c b/net/unix/diag.c
index 5ac19dc..ff4f29b 100644
--- a/net/unix/diag.c
+++ b/net/unix/diag.c
@@ -124,6 +124,7 @@ static int sk_diag_fill(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb, struct unix_diag_r
 	rep->udiag_family = AF_UNIX;
 	rep->udiag_type = sk->sk_type;
 	rep->udiag_state = sk->sk_state;
+	rep->pad = 0;
 	rep->udiag_ino = sk_ino;
 	sock_diag_save_cookie(sk, rep->udiag_cookie);
 
-- 
1.8.1.2





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