This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
ax25: fix info leak via msg_name in ax25_recvmsg()
to the 3.8-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
ax25-fix-info-leak-via-msg_name-in-ax25_recvmsg.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 8c6a036edfa2f60b12b06b9f27ff0c8919691e00 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mathias Krause <minipli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2013 01:51:48 +0000
Subject: ax25: fix info leak via msg_name in ax25_recvmsg()
From: Mathias Krause <minipli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit ef3313e84acbf349caecae942ab3ab731471f1a1 ]
When msg_namelen is non-zero the sockaddr info gets filled out, as
requested, but the code fails to initialize the padding bytes of struct
sockaddr_ax25 inserted by the compiler for alignment. Additionally the
msg_namelen value is updated to sizeof(struct full_sockaddr_ax25) but is
not always filled up to this size.
Both issues lead to the fact that the code will leak uninitialized
kernel stack bytes in net/socket.c.
Fix both issues by initializing the memory with memset(0).
Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/ax25/af_ax25.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/net/ax25/af_ax25.c
+++ b/net/ax25/af_ax25.c
@@ -1647,6 +1647,7 @@ static int ax25_recvmsg(struct kiocb *io
ax25_address src;
const unsigned char *mac = skb_mac_header(skb);
+ memset(sax, 0, sizeof(struct full_sockaddr_ax25));
ax25_addr_parse(mac + 1, skb->data - mac - 1, &src, NULL,
&digi, NULL, NULL);
sax->sax25_family = AF_AX25;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from minipli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.8/irda-fix-missing-msg_namelen-update-in-irda_recvmsg_dgram.patch
queue-3.8/bluetooth-rfcomm-fix-missing-msg_namelen-update-in-rfcomm_sock_recvmsg.patch
queue-3.8/llc-fix-missing-msg_namelen-update-in-llc_ui_recvmsg.patch
queue-3.8/nfc-llcp-fix-info-leaks-via-msg_name-in-llcp_sock_recvmsg.patch
queue-3.8/atm-update-msg_namelen-in-vcc_recvmsg.patch
queue-3.8/iucv-fix-missing-msg_namelen-update-in-iucv_sock_recvmsg.patch
queue-3.8/ax25-fix-info-leak-via-msg_name-in-ax25_recvmsg.patch
queue-3.8/tipc-fix-info-leaks-via-msg_name-in-recv_msg-recv_stream.patch
queue-3.8/netrom-fix-info-leak-via-msg_name-in-nr_recvmsg.patch
queue-3.8/caif-fix-missing-msg_namelen-update-in-caif_seqpkt_recvmsg.patch
queue-3.8/l2tp-fix-info-leak-in-l2tp_ip6_recvmsg.patch
queue-3.8/bluetooth-sco-fix-missing-msg_namelen-update-in-sco_sock_recvmsg.patch
queue-3.8/bluetooth-fix-possible-info-leak-in-bt_sock_recvmsg.patch
queue-3.8/rose-fix-info-leak-via-msg_name-in-rose_recvmsg.patch
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