[patch 11/20] NET: Ensure device name passed to SO_BINDTODEVICE is NULL terminated.

From: Greg KH
Date: Fri Mar 24 2006 - 23:30:38 EST


-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

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The user can pass us arbitrary garbage so we should ensure the
string they give us is null terminated before we pass it on
to dev_get_by_index() et al.

Found by Solar Designer.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
---

net/core/sock.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- linux-2.6.16.orig/net/core/sock.c
+++ linux-2.6.16/net/core/sock.c
@@ -404,8 +404,9 @@ set_rcvbuf:
if (!valbool) {
sk->sk_bound_dev_if = 0;
} else {
- if (optlen > IFNAMSIZ)
- optlen = IFNAMSIZ;
+ if (optlen > IFNAMSIZ - 1)
+ optlen = IFNAMSIZ - 1;
+ memset(devname, 0, sizeof(devname));
if (copy_from_user(devname, optval, optlen)) {
ret = -EFAULT;
break;

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