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dccp: check ccid before dereferencing
authorMathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Wed, 15 Aug 2012 11:31:54 +0000 (11:31 +0000)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Wed, 12 Sep 2012 02:37:04 +0000 (03:37 +0100)
commit372c463a7c5ea46eca693ea52bd95cb8512247f8
treee7ecae5e0abba84f540b476b023032f6715f7d90
parentfc7834af1b974a2578440d1210a991eedd2151b1
dccp: check ccid before dereferencing

commit 276bdb82dedb290511467a5a4fdbe9f0b52dce6f upstream.

ccid_hc_rx_getsockopt() and ccid_hc_tx_getsockopt() might be called with
a NULL ccid pointer leading to a NULL pointer dereference. This could
lead to a privilege escalation if the attacker is able to map page 0 and
prepare it with a fake ccid_ops pointer.

Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Cc: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
net/dccp/ccid.h