[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "ipv6: fix leaking uninitialized port number of offender sockaddr" has been added to staging queue
Luis Henriques
luis.henriques at canonical.com
Wed Dec 11 14:40:04 UTC 2013
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled
ipv6: fix leaking uninitialized port number of offender sockaddr
to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.y.z extended stable tree
which can be found at:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.11.y-queue
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please
reply to this email.
For more information about the 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable
Thanks.
-Luis
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>From 21aeb09afab87377f236f89624a42cda037c5ddc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes at stressinduktion.org>
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 07:22:33 +0100
Subject: ipv6: fix leaking uninitialized port number of offender sockaddr
commit 1fa4c710b6fe7b0aac9907240291b6fe6aafc3b8 upstream.
Offenders don't have port numbers, so set it to 0.
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes at stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
net/ipv6/datagram.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/net/ipv6/datagram.c b/net/ipv6/datagram.c
index a5ca9bf..58d9bd9 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/datagram.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/datagram.c
@@ -378,6 +378,7 @@ int ipv6_recv_error(struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *msg, int len, int *addr_len)
if (serr->ee.ee_origin != SO_EE_ORIGIN_LOCAL) {
sin->sin6_family = AF_INET6;
sin->sin6_flowinfo = 0;
+ sin->sin6_port = 0;
if (skb->protocol == htons(ETH_P_IPV6)) {
sin->sin6_addr = ipv6_hdr(skb)->saddr;
if (np->rxopt.all)
--
1.8.3.2
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