This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
hamradio/yam: fix info leak in ioctl
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:
hamradio-yam-fix-info-leak-in-ioctl.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.
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From: =?UTF-8?q?Salva=20Peir=C3=B3?= <speiro@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 10:06:30 +0100
Subject: hamradio/yam: fix info leak in ioctl
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From: Salva Peiró <speiro@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 8e3fbf870481eb53b2d3a322d1fc395ad8b367ed ]
The yam_ioctl() code fails to initialise the cmd field
of the struct yamdrv_ioctl_cfg. Add an explicit memset(0)
before filling the structure to avoid the 4-byte info leak.
Signed-off-by: Salva Peiró <speiro@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c
+++ b/drivers/net/hamradio/yam.c
@@ -1057,6 +1057,7 @@ static int yam_ioctl(struct net_device *
break;
case SIOCYAMGCFG:
+ memset(&yi, 0, sizeof(yi));
yi.cfg.mask = 0xffffffff;
yi.cfg.iobase = yp->iobase;
yi.cfg.irq = yp->irq;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from speiro@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.12/hamradio-yam-fix-info-leak-in-ioctl.patch
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