UHID allows short writes so user-space can omit unused fields. We automatically set them to 0 in the kernel. However, the 64/32 bit compat-handler didn't do that in the UHID_CREATE fallback. This will reveal random kernel heap data (of random size, even) to user-space. Reported-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx --- drivers/hid/uhid.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/hid/uhid.c b/drivers/hid/uhid.c index 93b00d7..cedc6da 100644 --- a/drivers/hid/uhid.c +++ b/drivers/hid/uhid.c @@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ static int uhid_event_from_user(const char __user *buffer, size_t len, */ struct uhid_create_req_compat *compat; - compat = kmalloc(sizeof(*compat), GFP_KERNEL); + compat = kzalloc(sizeof(*compat), GFP_KERNEL); if (!compat) return -ENOMEM; -- 1.8.4.2 -- 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