netdev - [PATCH 5/5] ipv4: netfilter: ip_tables: fix information leak to userland

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Date:	Wed,  3 Nov 2010 23:12:52 +0100
From:	kaber@...sh.net
To:	davem@...emloft.net
Cc:	netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 5/5] ipv4: netfilter: ip_tables: fix information leak to userland

From: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@...il.com>

Structure ipt_getinfo is copied to userland with the field "name"
that has the last elements unitialized.  It leads to leaking of
contents of kernel stack memory.

Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
---
 net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c |    1 +
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c b/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c
index d31b007..a846d63 100644
--- a/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c
+++ b/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c
@@ -1124,6 +1124,7 @@ static int get_info(struct net *net, void __user *user,
 			private = &tmp;
 		}
 #endif
+		memset(&info, 0, sizeof(info));
 		info.valid_hooks = t->valid_hooks;
 		memcpy(info.hook_entry, private->hook_entry,
 		       sizeof(info.hook_entry));
-- 
1.7.1

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