This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
audit: fix info leak in AUDIT_GET requests
to the 3.12-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:
audit-fix-info-leak-in-audit_get-requests.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.12 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 64fbff9ae0a0a843365d922e0057fc785f23f0e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Mathias Krause <minipli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 22:04:24 +0200
Subject: audit: fix info leak in AUDIT_GET requests
From: Mathias Krause <minipli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 64fbff9ae0a0a843365d922e0057fc785f23f0e3 upstream.
We leak 4 bytes of kernel stack in response to an AUDIT_GET request as
we miss to initialize the mask member of status_set. Fix that.
Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/audit.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/kernel/audit.c
+++ b/kernel/audit.c
@@ -659,6 +659,7 @@ static int audit_receive_msg(struct sk_b
switch (msg_type) {
case AUDIT_GET:
+ status_set.mask = 0;
status_set.enabled = audit_enabled;
status_set.failure = audit_failure;
status_set.pid = audit_pid;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from minipli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.12/ipc-msg-fix-message-length-check-for-negative-values.patch
queue-3.12/audit-fix-info-leak-in-audit_get-requests.patch
queue-3.12/audit-use-nlmsg_len-to-get-message-payload-length.patch
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