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diff --git a/net/x25/x25_facilities.c b/net/x25/x25_facilities.c index 7ecd04c..997ff7b 100644 --- a/net/x25/x25_facilities.c +++ b/net/x25/x25_facilities.c @@ -277,6 +277,7 @@ int x25_negotiate_facilities(struct sk_buff *skb, struct sock *sk, memset(&theirs, 0, sizeof(theirs)); memcpy(new, ours, sizeof(*new)); + memset(dte, 0, sizeof(*dte)); len = x25_parse_facilities(skb, &theirs, dte, &x25->vc_facil_mask); if (len < 0)
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled net: fix a kernel infoleak in x25 module to the linux-4.2.y-queue branch of the 4.2.y-ckt extended stable tree which can be found at: https://git.launchpad.net/~canonical-kernel/linux/+git/linux-stable-ckt/log/?h=linux-4.2.y-queue This patch is scheduled to be released in version 4.2.8-ckt11. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please reply to this email. For more information about the 4.2.y-ckt tree, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable Thanks. -Kamal ---8<------------------------------------------------------------ From 4b00643ec28c9e61d3010afa49d7f53e6149e48e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kangjie Lu <kangjielu@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 8 May 2016 12:10:14 -0400 Subject: net: fix a kernel infoleak in x25 module [ Upstream commit 79e48650320e6fba48369fccf13fd045315b19b8 ] Stack object "dte_facilities" is allocated in x25_rx_call_request(), which is supposed to be initialized in x25_negotiate_facilities. However, 5 fields (8 bytes in total) are not initialized. This object is then copied to userland via copy_to_user, thus infoleak occurs. Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@gatech.edu> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com> --- net/x25/x25_facilities.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) -- 2.7.4