RE: [PATCH 1/2] block: cciss: fix information leak to userland

From: Miller, Mike (OS Dev)
Date: Mon Oct 25 2010 - 10:41:58 EST




> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vasiliy Kulikov [mailto:segooon@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2010 3:25 AM
> To: kernel-janitors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Miller, Mike (OS Dev); Jens Axboe; Stephen M. Cameron;
> Andrew Morton; ISS StorageDev; linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [PATCH 1/2] block: cciss: fix information leak to userland
>
> Structure IOCTL_Command_struct is copied to userland with
> some padding fields at the end of the struct unitialized.
> It leads to leaking of stack memory.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/block/cciss.c | 1 +
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/block/cciss.c b/drivers/block/cciss.c
> index 762a81a..cd08324 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/cciss.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/cciss.c
> @@ -1142,6 +1142,7 @@ static int
> cciss_ioctl32_passthru(struct block_device *bdev, fmode_t mode,
> int err;
> u32 cp;
>
> + memset(&arg64, 0, sizeof(arg64));
> err = 0;
> err |=
> copy_from_user(&arg64.LUN_info, &arg32->LUN_info,
> --

Acked-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@xxxxxx>

> 1.7.0.4
>
> --
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/