[PATCH 2/2] ALSA: timer: Fix leak in events via snd_timer_user_tinterrupt

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Wed May 25 15:17:25 UTC 2016


From: Kangjie Lu <kangjielu at gmail.com>

The stack object “r1” has a total size of 32 bytes. Its field
“event” and “val” both contain 4 bytes padding. These 8 bytes
padding bytes are sent to user without being initialized.

Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu at gatech.edu>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
(cherry picked from commit e4ec8cc8039a7063e24204299b462bd1383184a5)
CVE-2016-4578
BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1581866
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 sound/core/timer.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/sound/core/timer.c b/sound/core/timer.c
index c72023235f0a..a82f82624247 100644
--- a/sound/core/timer.c
+++ b/sound/core/timer.c
@@ -1248,6 +1248,7 @@ static void snd_timer_user_tinterrupt(struct snd_timer_instance *timeri,
 	}
 	if ((tu->filter & (1 << SNDRV_TIMER_EVENT_RESOLUTION)) &&
 	    tu->last_resolution != resolution) {
+		memset(&r1, 0, sizeof(r1));
 		r1.event = SNDRV_TIMER_EVENT_RESOLUTION;
 		r1.tstamp = tstamp;
 		r1.val = resolution;




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