| From | Paul Gortmaker <> | Subject | [34-longterm 123/260] drivers/net/cxgb3/cxgb3_main.c: prevent reading uninitialized stack memory | Date | Sun, 2 Jan 2011 02:16:59 -0500 |
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From: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>
commit 49c37c0334a9b85d30ab3d6b5d1acb05ef2ef6de upstream.
Fixed formatting (tabs and line breaks).
The CHELSIO_GET_QSET_NUM device ioctl allows unprivileged users to read 4 bytes of uninitialized stack memory, because the "addr" member of the ch_reg struct declared on the stack in cxgb_extension_ioctl() 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> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com> --- drivers/net/cxgb3/cxgb3_main.c | 2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/cxgb3/cxgb3_main.c b/drivers/net/cxgb3/cxgb3_main.c index e3f1b85..3e0f19f 100644 --- a/drivers/net/cxgb3/cxgb3_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/cxgb3/cxgb3_main.c @@ -2296,6 +2296,8 @@ static int cxgb_extension_ioctl(struct net_device *dev, void __user *useraddr) case CHELSIO_GET_QSET_NUM:{ struct ch_reg edata; + memset(&edata, 0, sizeof(struct ch_reg)); + edata.cmd = CHELSIO_GET_QSET_NUM; edata.val = pi->nqsets; if (copy_to_user(useraddr, &edata, sizeof(edata))) -- 1.7.3.3
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