This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled packet: fix heap info leak in PACKET_DIAG_MCLIST sock_diag interface to the 3.14-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: packet-fix-heap-info-leak-in-packet_diag_mclist-sock_diag-interface.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Mon May 16 14:28:53 PDT 2016 From: Mathias Krause <minipli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2016 12:52:28 +0200 Subject: packet: fix heap info leak in PACKET_DIAG_MCLIST sock_diag interface Status: RO Content-Length: 1163 Lines: 33 From: Mathias Krause <minipli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 309cf37fe2a781279b7675d4bb7173198e532867 ] Because we miss to wipe the remainder of i->addr[] in packet_mc_add(), pdiag_put_mclist() leaks uninitialized heap bytes via the PACKET_DIAG_MCLIST netlink attribute. Fix this by explicitly memset(0)ing the remaining bytes in i->addr[]. Fixes: eea68e2f1a00 ("packet: Report socket mclist info via diag module") Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/packet/af_packet.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/net/packet/af_packet.c +++ b/net/packet/af_packet.c @@ -3153,6 +3153,7 @@ static int packet_mc_add(struct sock *sk i->ifindex = mreq->mr_ifindex; i->alen = mreq->mr_alen; memcpy(i->addr, mreq->mr_address, i->alen); + memset(i->addr + i->alen, 0, sizeof(i->addr) - i->alen); i->count = 1; i->next = po->mclist; po->mclist = i; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from minipli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.14/packet-fix-heap-info-leak-in-packet_diag_mclist-sock_diag-interface.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