| Date | Tue, 07 Dec 2010 17:00:52 -0800 | From | Greg KH <> | Subject | [275/289] econet: disallow NULL remote addr for sendmsg(), fixes CVE-2010-3849 |
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2.6.36-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.
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From: Phil Blundell <philb@gnu.org>
commit fa0e846494792e722d817b9d3d625a4ef4896c96 upstream.
Later parts of econet_sendmsg() rely on saddr != NULL, so return early with EINVAL if NULL was passed otherwise an oops may occur.
Signed-off-by: Phil Blundell <philb@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
--- net/econet/af_econet.c | 26 ++++++++------------------ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
--- a/net/econet/af_econet.c +++ b/net/econet/af_econet.c @@ -297,23 +297,14 @@ static int econet_sendmsg(struct kiocb * mutex_lock(&econet_mutex); - if (saddr == NULL) { - struct econet_sock *eo = ec_sk(sk); - - addr.station = eo->station; - addr.net = eo->net; - port = eo->port; - cb = eo->cb; - } else { - if (msg->msg_namelen < sizeof(struct sockaddr_ec)) { - mutex_unlock(&econet_mutex); - return -EINVAL; - } - addr.station = saddr->addr.station; - addr.net = saddr->addr.net; - port = saddr->port; - cb = saddr->cb; - } + if (saddr == NULL || msg->msg_namelen < sizeof(struct sockaddr_ec)) { + mutex_unlock(&econet_mutex); + return -EINVAL; + } + addr.station = saddr->addr.station; + addr.net = saddr->addr.net; + port = saddr->port; + cb = saddr->cb; /* Look for a device with the right network number. */ dev = net2dev_map[addr.net]; @@ -351,7 +342,6 @@ static int econet_sendmsg(struct kiocb * eb = (struct ec_cb *)&skb->cb; - /* BUG: saddr may be NULL */ eb->cookie = saddr->cookie; eb->sec = *saddr; eb->sent = ec_tx_done;
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