This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled pptp: fix stack info leak in pptp_getname() to the 3.10-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: pptp-fix-stack-info-leak-in-pptp_getname.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Wed Dec 3 17:07:11 PST 2014 From: Mathias Krause <minipli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 18:05:26 +0100 Subject: pptp: fix stack info leak in pptp_getname() From: Mathias Krause <minipli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit a5f6fc28d6e6cc379c6839f21820e62262419584 ] pptp_getname() only partially initializes the stack variable sa, particularly only fills the pptp part of the sa_addr union. The code thereby discloses 16 bytes of kernel stack memory via getsockname(). Fix this by memset(0)'ing the union before. Cc: Dmitry Kozlov <xeb@xxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/ppp/pptp.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/net/ppp/pptp.c +++ b/drivers/net/ppp/pptp.c @@ -506,7 +506,9 @@ static int pptp_getname(struct socket *s int len = sizeof(struct sockaddr_pppox); struct sockaddr_pppox sp; - sp.sa_family = AF_PPPOX; + memset(&sp.sa_addr, 0, sizeof(sp.sa_addr)); + + sp.sa_family = AF_PPPOX; sp.sa_protocol = PX_PROTO_PPTP; sp.sa_addr.pptp = pppox_sk(sock->sk)->proto.pptp.src_addr; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from minipli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.10/pptp-fix-stack-info-leak-in-pptp_getname.patch -- 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