From: Kangjie Lu <kangjielu@xxxxxxxxx> commit 5d2be1422e02ccd697ccfcd45c85b4a26e6178e2 upstream. This fixes CVE-2016-5243. link_info.str is a char array of size 60. Memory after the NULL byte is not initialized. Sending the whole object out can cause a leak. Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Juerg Haefliger <juerg.haefliger@xxxxxxx> --- net/tipc/netlink_compat.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c b/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c index 2ed732bfe94b..f4f27c7c54fb 100644 --- a/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c +++ b/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c @@ -574,7 +574,8 @@ static int tipc_nl_compat_link_dump(struct tipc_nl_compat_msg *msg, link_info.dest = nla_get_flag(link[TIPC_NLA_LINK_DEST]); link_info.up = htonl(nla_get_flag(link[TIPC_NLA_LINK_UP])); - strcpy(link_info.str, nla_data(link[TIPC_NLA_LINK_NAME])); + nla_strlcpy(link_info.str, nla_data(link[TIPC_NLA_LINK_NAME]), + TIPC_MAX_LINK_NAME); return tipc_add_tlv(msg->rep, TIPC_TLV_LINK_INFO, &link_info, sizeof(link_info)); -- 2.9.3 -- 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