From ddfd87424bef1dc8b2930acae2311b286ab9de12 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kulikov Vasiliy Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 07:10:32 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] net: tipc: fix information leak to userland commit 88f8a5e3e7defccd3925cabb1ee4d3994e5cdb52 upstream. Structure sockaddr_tipc is copied to userland with padding bytes after "id" field in union field "name" unitialized. It leads to leaking of contents of kernel stack memory. We have to initialize them to zero. Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker --- net/tipc/socket.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/net/tipc/socket.c b/net/tipc/socket.c index cfb20b80b3a1..a70214a02fe9 100644 --- a/net/tipc/socket.c +++ b/net/tipc/socket.c @@ -395,6 +395,7 @@ static int get_name(struct socket *sock, struct sockaddr *uaddr, struct sockaddr_tipc *addr = (struct sockaddr_tipc *)uaddr; struct tipc_sock *tsock = tipc_sk(sock->sk); + memset(addr, 0, sizeof(*addr)); if (peer) { if ((sock->state != SS_CONNECTED) && ((peer != 2) || (sock->state != SS_DISCONNECTING))) -- 2.39.5