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 3.4-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-3.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 2730a8b5b87c74838f431f4ee61dc8637d316e64 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 @@ -1646,6 +1646,7 @@ 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-3.4/irda-fix-missing-msg_namelen-update-in-irda_recvmsg_dgram.patch queue-3.4/bluetooth-rfcomm-fix-missing-msg_namelen-update-in-rfcomm_sock_recvmsg.patch queue-3.4/llc-fix-missing-msg_namelen-update-in-llc_ui_recvmsg.patch queue-3.4/nfc-llcp-fix-info-leaks-via-msg_name-in-llcp_sock_recvmsg.patch queue-3.4/atm-update-msg_namelen-in-vcc_recvmsg.patch queue-3.4/iucv-fix-missing-msg_namelen-update-in-iucv_sock_recvmsg.patch queue-3.4/ax25-fix-info-leak-via-msg_name-in-ax25_recvmsg.patch queue-3.4/tipc-fix-info-leaks-via-msg_name-in-recv_msg-recv_stream.patch queue-3.4/netrom-fix-info-leak-via-msg_name-in-nr_recvmsg.patch queue-3.4/caif-fix-missing-msg_namelen-update-in-caif_seqpkt_recvmsg.patch queue-3.4/bluetooth-fix-possible-info-leak-in-bt_sock_recvmsg.patch queue-3.4/rose-fix-info-leak-via-msg_name-in-rose_recvmsg.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html