linux-kernel - [PATCH] staging: comedi: fix infoleak to userspace

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Date:	Sun, 26 Jun 2011 12:56:22 +0400
From:	Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	security@...nel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@...il.com>,
	Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@...fusion.mobi>,
	Ian Abbott <abbotti@....co.uk>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org
Subject: [PATCH] staging: comedi: fix infoleak to userspace

driver_name and board_name are pointers to strings, not buffers of size
COMEDI_NAMELEN.  Copying COMEDI_NAMELEN bytes of a string containing
less than COMEDI_NAMELEN-1 bytes would leak some unrelated bytes.

Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>
---
 drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c
index e7e72b8..c20694e 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c
@@ -383,8 +383,8 @@ static int do_devinfo_ioctl(struct comedi_device *dev,
 	/* fill devinfo structure */
 	devinfo.version_code = COMEDI_VERSION_CODE;
 	devinfo.n_subdevs = dev->n_subdevices;
-	memcpy(devinfo.driver_name, dev->driver->driver_name, COMEDI_NAMELEN);
-	memcpy(devinfo.board_name, dev->board_name, COMEDI_NAMELEN);
+	strlcpy(devinfo.driver_name, dev->driver->driver_name, COMEDI_NAMELEN);
+	strlcpy(devinfo.board_name, dev->board_name, COMEDI_NAMELEN);
 
 	if (read_subdev)
 		devinfo.read_subdevice = read_subdev - dev->subdevices;
-- 
1.7.0.4

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