[34-longterm 075/209] usb: misc: sisusbvga: fix information leak to userland

From: Paul Gortmaker
Date: Thu Apr 14 2011 - 13:56:14 EST


From: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@xxxxxxxxx>

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| This is a commit scheduled for the next v2.6.34 longterm release. |
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commit 5dc92cf1d0b4b0debbd2e333b83f9746c103533d upstream.

Structure sisusb_info is copied to userland with "sisusb_reserved" field
uninitialized. It leads to leaking of contents of kernel stack memory.

Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb.c | 1 +
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb.c b/drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb.c
index cf13923..ba0a0bb 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb.c
@@ -3018,6 +3018,7 @@ sisusb_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
#else
x.sisusb_conactive = 0;
#endif
+ memset(x.sisusb_reserved, 0, sizeof(x.sisusb_reserved));

if (copy_to_user((void __user *)arg, &x, sizeof(x)))
retval = -EFAULT;
--
1.7.4.4

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