From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit c995f12ad8842dbf5cfed113fb52cdd083f5afd1 ] Doing a prctl(PR_SET_MM, PR_SET_MM_AUXV, addr, 1); will copy 1 byte from userspace to (quite big) on-stack array and then stash everything to mm->saved_auxv. AT_NULL terminator will be inserted at the very end. /proc/*/auxv handler will find that AT_NULL terminator and copy original stack contents to userspace. This devious scheme requires CAP_SYS_RESOURCE. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> --- kernel/sys.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c index 2e4f017f7c5a..03fc0152cc54 100644 --- a/kernel/sys.c +++ b/kernel/sys.c @@ -2005,7 +2005,7 @@ static int prctl_set_auxv(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr, * up to the caller to provide sane values here, otherwise userspace * tools which use this vector might be unhappy. */ - unsigned long user_auxv[AT_VECTOR_SIZE]; + unsigned long user_auxv[AT_VECTOR_SIZE] = {}; if (len > sizeof(user_auxv)) return -EINVAL; -- 2.30.1