[4.2.y-ckt stable] Patch "net: fix infoleak in rtnetlink" has been added to the 4.2.y-ckt tree
Kamal Mostafa
kamal at canonical.com
Tue May 24 17:53:38 UTC 2016
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled
net: fix infoleak in rtnetlink
to the linux-4.2.y-queue branch of the 4.2.y-ckt extended stable tree
which can be found at:
https://git.launchpad.net/~canonical-kernel/linux/+git/linux-stable-ckt/log/?h=linux-4.2.y-queue
This patch is scheduled to be released in version 4.2.8-ckt11.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please
reply to this email.
For more information about the 4.2.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable
Thanks.
-Kamal
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From: Kangjie Lu <kangjielu at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 3 May 2016 16:46:24 -0400
Subject: net: fix infoleak in rtnetlink
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[ Upstream commit 5f8e44741f9f216e33736ea4ec65ca9ac03036e6 ]
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>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal 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 28e4c9c..6610ff1 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -1087,14 +1087,16 @@ 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;
}
--
2.7.4
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