[CVE-2016-4486][Trusty, LTS-Utopic, Viviv, Wily] net: fix infoleak in rtnetlink
Luis Henriques
luis.henriques at canonical.com
Tue May 10 14:12:39 UTC 2016
From: Kangjie Lu <kangjielu at gmail.com>
The stack object “map” has a total size of 32 bytes. Its last 4
bytes are padding generated by compiler. These padding bytes are
not initialized and sent out via “nla_put”.
Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu at gatech.edu>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
(backported from commit 5f8e44741f9f216e33736ea4ec65ca9ac03036e6)
[ luis:
- this kernel version has this code in function rtnl_fill_ifinfo(),
changed to rtnl_fill_link_ifmap() with commit b22b941b2c25 ]
CVE-2016-4486
BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1578497
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
net/core/rtnetlink.c | 18 ++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index 6b3500ece272..ba9a9afba64a 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -950,14 +950,16 @@ static int rtnl_fill_ifinfo(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
goto nla_put_failure;
if (1) {
- struct rtnl_link_ifmap map = {
- .mem_start = dev->mem_start,
- .mem_end = dev->mem_end,
- .base_addr = dev->base_addr,
- .irq = dev->irq,
- .dma = dev->dma,
- .port = dev->if_port,
- };
+ struct rtnl_link_ifmap map;
+
+ memset(&map, 0, sizeof(map));
+ map.mem_start = dev->mem_start;
+ map.mem_end = dev->mem_end;
+ map.base_addr = dev->base_addr;
+ map.irq = dev->irq;
+ map.dma = dev->dma;
+ map.port = dev->if_port;
+
if (nla_put(skb, IFLA_MAP, sizeof(map), &map))
goto nla_put_failure;
}
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