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[3.5,52/90] audit: fix info leak in AUDIT_GET requests

Message ID 1386264972-5399-53-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com
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Luis Henriques Dec. 5, 2013, 5:35 p.m. UTC 
3.5.7.27 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>

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@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Guy Briggs <rgb@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>
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 kernel/audit.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
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diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c
index f02d3fc..39b0438 100644
--- a/kernel/audit.c
+++ b/kernel/audit.c
@@ -684,6 +684,7 @@  static int audit_receive_msg(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlmsghdr *nlh)
 
 	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;