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[v2] drivers/net/eql.c: prevent reading uninitialized stack memory

Message ID 1284586984.6275.92.camel@dan
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Dan Rosenberg Sept. 15, 2010, 9:43 p.m. UTC
Fixed formatting (tabs and line breaks).

The EQL_GETMASTRCFG device ioctl allows unprivileged users to read 16
bytes of uninitialized stack memory, because the "master_name" member of
the master_config_t struct declared on the stack in eql_g_master_cfg()
is not altered or zeroed before being copied back to the user.  This
patch takes care of it.

Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <dan.j.rosenberg@gmail.com>






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David Miller Sept. 17, 2010, 4:55 a.m. UTC | #1
From: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2010 17:43:04 -0400

> Fixed formatting (tabs and line breaks).
> 
> The EQL_GETMASTRCFG device ioctl allows unprivileged users to read 16
> bytes of uninitialized stack memory, because the "master_name" member of
> the master_config_t struct declared on the stack in eql_g_master_cfg()
> is not altered or zeroed before being copied back to the user.  This
> patch takes care of it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <dan.j.rosenberg@gmail.com>

Applied.
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Patch

--- linux-2.6.35.4.orig/drivers/net/eql.c	2010-08-26 19:47:12.000000000 -0400
+++ linux-2.6.35.4/drivers/net/eql.c	2010-09-14 21:25:27.719474445 -0400
@@ -555,6 +555,8 @@  static int eql_g_master_cfg(struct net_d
 	equalizer_t *eql;
 	master_config_t mc;
 
+	memset(&mc, 0, sizeof(master_config_t));
+
 	if (eql_is_master(dev)) {
 		eql = netdev_priv(dev);
 		mc.max_slaves = eql->max_slaves;