This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled Bluetooth: fix possible info leak in bt_sock_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: bluetooth-fix-possible-info-leak-in-bt_sock_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 6bcc4146079e2b4c3e78591e595094f5bea90d9a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mathias Krause <minipli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 7 Apr 2013 01:51:49 +0000 Subject: Bluetooth: fix possible info leak in bt_sock_recvmsg() From: Mathias Krause <minipli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 4683f42fde3977bdb4e8a09622788cc8b5313778 ] In case the socket is already shutting down, bt_sock_recvmsg() returns with 0 without updating msg_namelen leading to net/socket.c leaking the local, uninitialized sockaddr_storage variable to userland -- 128 bytes of kernel stack memory. Fix this by moving the msg_namelen assignment in front of the shutdown test. Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/bluetooth/af_bluetooth.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/net/bluetooth/af_bluetooth.c +++ b/net/bluetooth/af_bluetooth.c @@ -240,6 +240,8 @@ int bt_sock_recvmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, if (flags & (MSG_OOB)) return -EOPNOTSUPP; + msg->msg_namelen = 0; + skb = skb_recv_datagram(sk, flags, noblock, &err); if (!skb) { if (sk->sk_shutdown & RCV_SHUTDOWN) @@ -247,8 +249,6 @@ int bt_sock_recvmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, return err; } - msg->msg_namelen = 0; - copied = skb->len; if (len < copied) { msg->msg_flags |= MSG_TRUNC; 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