[karmic CVE 1/1] net: packet: fix information leak to userland
Andy Whitcroft
apw at canonical.com
Tue Feb 1 14:26:25 UTC 2011
packet_getname_spkt() doesn't initialize all members of sa_data field of
sockaddr struct if strlen(dev->name) < 13. This structure is then copied
to userland. It leads to leaking of contents of kernel stack memory.
We have to fully fill sa_data with strncpy() instead of strlcpy().
The same with packet_getname(): it doesn't initialize sll_pkttype field of
sockaddr_ll. Set it to zero.
Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
CVE-2010-3876
BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/710714
(backported from commit 67286640f638f5ad41a946b9a3dc75327950248f upstream)
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw at canonical.com>
---
net/packet/af_packet.c | 3 ++-
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/packet/af_packet.c b/net/packet/af_packet.c
index f9f7177..f47d0b3 100644
--- a/net/packet/af_packet.c
+++ b/net/packet/af_packet.c
@@ -1524,7 +1524,7 @@ static int packet_getname_spkt(struct socket *sock, struct sockaddr *uaddr,
uaddr->sa_family = AF_PACKET;
dev = dev_get_by_index(sock_net(sk), pkt_sk(sk)->ifindex);
if (dev) {
- strlcpy(uaddr->sa_data, dev->name, 15);
+ strncpy(uaddr->sa_data, dev->name, 14);
dev_put(dev);
} else
memset(uaddr->sa_data, 0, 14);
@@ -1547,6 +1547,7 @@ static int packet_getname(struct socket *sock, struct sockaddr *uaddr,
sll->sll_family = AF_PACKET;
sll->sll_ifindex = po->ifindex;
sll->sll_protocol = po->num;
+ sll->sll_pkttype = 0;
dev = dev_get_by_index(sock_net(sk), po->ifindex);
if (dev) {
sll->sll_hatype = dev->type;
--
1.7.1
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