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Subject[34-longterm 079/196] net: ax25: fix information leak to userland harder
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From: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>

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This is a commit scheduled for the next v2.6.34 longterm release.
If you see a problem with using this for longterm, please comment.
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commit 5b919f833d9d60588d026ad82d17f17e8872c7a9 upstream.

Commit fe10ae53384e48c51996941b7720ee16995cbcb7 adds a memset() to clear
the structure being sent back to userspace, but accidentally used the
wrong size.

Reported-by: Brad Spengler <spender@grsecurity.net>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
---
net/ax25/af_ax25.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ax25/af_ax25.c b/net/ax25/af_ax25.c
index eb100ce..12c350c 100644
--- a/net/ax25/af_ax25.c
+++ b/net/ax25/af_ax25.c
@@ -1392,7 +1392,7 @@ static int ax25_getname(struct socket *sock, struct sockaddr *uaddr,
ax25_cb *ax25;
int err = 0;

- memset(fsa, 0, sizeof(fsa));
+ memset(fsa, 0, sizeof(*fsa));
lock_sock(sk);
ax25 = ax25_sk(sk);

--
1.7.9.3


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