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tun/tap: Fix crashes if open() /dev/net/tun and then poll() it. (CVE-2009-1897)
authorMariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Sun, 5 Jul 2009 19:48:35 +0000 (19:48 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Mon, 20 Jul 2009 03:38:47 +0000 (20:38 -0700)
commit3f8fd3f9f677ce452556aca82473b7fcac370830
tree7afa1b6b3b273530c5d62cfc6bc8444afe5db686
parent2401fe3fbc5bd7db741867102fe355babce76506
tun/tap: Fix crashes if open() /dev/net/tun and then poll() it. (CVE-2009-1897)

commit 3c8a9c63d5fd738c261bd0ceece04d9c8357ca13 upstream.

Fix NULL pointer dereference in tun_chr_pool() introduced by commit
33dccbb050bbe35b88ca8cf1228dcf3e4d4b3554 ("tun: Limit amount of queued
packets per device") and triggered by this code:

int fd;
struct pollfd pfd;
fd = open("/dev/net/tun", O_RDWR);
pfd.fd = fd;
pfd.events = POLLIN | POLLOUT;
poll(&pfd, 1, 0);

Reported-by: Eugene Kapun <abacabadabacaba@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
drivers/net/tun.c