[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "cpqarray: fix info leak in ida_locked_ioctl()" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Wed Oct 2 15:03:59 UTC 2013


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    cpqarray: fix info leak in ida_locked_ioctl()

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.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-3.5.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 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 0076d815286d9ec96b39059dfb52f495245e8e59 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 15:27:44 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] cpqarray: fix info leak in ida_locked_ioctl()

commit 627aad1c01da6f881e7f98d71fd928ca0c316b1a upstream.

The pciinfo struct has a two byte hole after ->dev_fn so stack
information could be leaked to the user.

This was assigned CVE-2013-2147.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter at oracle.com>
Acked-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller at hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/block/cpqarray.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/block/cpqarray.c b/drivers/block/cpqarray.c
index 9125bbe..504bc16 100644
--- a/drivers/block/cpqarray.c
+++ b/drivers/block/cpqarray.c
@@ -1195,6 +1195,7 @@ out_passthru:
 		ida_pci_info_struct pciinfo;

 		if (!arg) return -EINVAL;
+		memset(&pciinfo, 0, sizeof(pciinfo));
 		pciinfo.bus = host->pci_dev->bus->number;
 		pciinfo.dev_fn = host->pci_dev->devfn;
 		pciinfo.board_id = host->board_id;
--
1.8.3.2





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