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authorVasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>2011-03-17 01:40:10 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2011-03-18 15:12:15 -0700
commit67c5c6cb8129c595f21e88254a3fc6b3b841ae8e (patch)
tree76b219ead6898d683e477e2fa2579145e792bd0a /net/econet
parent4363c2fddb1399b728ef21ee8101c148a311ea45 (diff)
downloadlinux-67c5c6cb8129c595f21e88254a3fc6b3b841ae8e.tar.bz2
econet: 4 byte infoleak to the network
struct aunhdr has 4 padding bytes between 'pad' and 'handle' fields on x86_64. These bytes are not initialized in the variable 'ah' before sending 'ah' to the network. This leads to 4 bytes kernel stack infoleak. This bug was introduced before the git epoch. Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com> Acked-by: Phil Blundell <philb@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/econet')
-rw-r--r--net/econet/af_econet.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/econet/af_econet.c b/net/econet/af_econet.c
index 0c2826337919..116d3fd3d669 100644
--- a/net/econet/af_econet.c
+++ b/net/econet/af_econet.c
@@ -435,10 +435,10 @@ static int econet_sendmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct socket *sock,
udpdest.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl(network | addr.station);
}
+ memset(&ah, 0, sizeof(ah));
ah.port = port;
ah.cb = cb & 0x7f;
ah.code = 2; /* magic */
- ah.pad = 0;
/* tack our header on the front of the iovec */
size = sizeof(struct aunhdr);