ACK: [PATCH 1/2] UBUNTU: SAUCE: irda: Fix memory leak caused by repeated binds of irda socket

[Colin Ian King]

On 04/09/18 16:10, Tyler Hicks wrote:
> The irda_bind() function allocates memory for self->ias_obj without
> checking to see if the socket is already bound. A userspace process
> could repeatedly bind the socket, have each new object added into the
> LM-IAS database, and lose the reference to the old object assigned to
> the socket to exhaust memory resources. This patch errors out of the
> bind operation when self->ias_obj is already assigned.
> 
> CVE-2018-6554
> 
> Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
> Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks at canonical.com>
> Reviewed-by: Seth Arnold <seth.arnold at canonical.com>
> Reviewed-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader at canonical.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/irda/net/af_irda.c | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/irda/net/af_irda.c b/drivers/staging/irda/net/af_irda.c
> index b82a47b9ef0b..176704b1b688 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/irda/net/af_irda.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/irda/net/af_irda.c
> @@ -775,6 +775,13 @@ static int irda_bind(struct socket *sock, struct sockaddr *uaddr, int addr_len)
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  
>  	lock_sock(sk);
> +
> +	/* Ensure that the socket is not already bound */
> +	if (self->ias_obj) {
> +		err = -EINVAL;
> +		goto out;
> +	}
> +
>  #ifdef CONFIG_IRDA_ULTRA
>  	/* Special care for Ultra sockets */
>  	if ((sk->sk_type == SOCK_DGRAM) &&
> 
Acked-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king at canonical.com>