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[net] net: rtnetlink: fix info leak in RTM_GETSTATS call

Message ID 1507026048-13734-1-git-send-email-nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Series [net] net: rtnetlink: fix info leak in RTM_GETSTATS call | expand

Commit Message

Nikolay Aleksandrov Oct. 3, 2017, 10:20 a.m. UTC
When RTM_GETSTATS was added the fields of its header struct were not all
initialized when returning the result thus leaking 4 bytes of information
to user-space per rtnl_fill_statsinfo call, so initialize them now. Thanks
to Alexander Potapenko for the detailed report and bisection.

Reported-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Fixes: 10c9ead9f3c6 ("rtnetlink: add new RTM_GETSTATS message to dump link stats")
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
---
 net/core/rtnetlink.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

Comments

Roopa Prabhu Oct. 3, 2017, 2:18 p.m. UTC | #1
On Tue, Oct 3, 2017 at 3:20 AM, Nikolay Aleksandrov
<nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com> wrote:
> When RTM_GETSTATS was added the fields of its header struct were not all
> initialized when returning the result thus leaking 4 bytes of information
> to user-space per rtnl_fill_statsinfo call, so initialize them now. Thanks
> to Alexander Potapenko for the detailed report and bisection.
>
> Reported-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
> Fixes: 10c9ead9f3c6 ("rtnetlink: add new RTM_GETSTATS message to dump link stats")
> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>

Acked-by: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>

Thanks Nikolay!.
David Miller Oct. 3, 2017, 5:19 p.m. UTC | #2
From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
Date: Tue,  3 Oct 2017 13:20:48 +0300

> When RTM_GETSTATS was added the fields of its header struct were not all
> initialized when returning the result thus leaking 4 bytes of information
> to user-space per rtnl_fill_statsinfo call, so initialize them now. Thanks
> to Alexander Potapenko for the detailed report and bisection.
> 
> Reported-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
> Fixes: 10c9ead9f3c6 ("rtnetlink: add new RTM_GETSTATS message to dump link stats")
> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.
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Patch

diff --git a/net/core/rtnetlink.c b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
index a78fd61da0ec..d4bcdcc68e92 100644
--- a/net/core/rtnetlink.c
+++ b/net/core/rtnetlink.c
@@ -3854,6 +3854,9 @@  static int rtnl_fill_statsinfo(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
 		return -EMSGSIZE;
 
 	ifsm = nlmsg_data(nlh);
+	ifsm->family = PF_UNSPEC;
+	ifsm->pad1 = 0;
+	ifsm->pad2 = 0;
 	ifsm->ifindex = dev->ifindex;
 	ifsm->filter_mask = filter_mask;