lists.openwall.net   lists  /  announce  owl-users  owl-dev  john-users  john-dev  passwdqc-users  yescrypt  popa3d-users  /  oss-security  kernel-hardening  musl  sabotage  tlsify  passwords  /  crypt-dev  xvendor  /  Bugtraq  Full-Disclosure  linux-kernel  linux-netdev  linux-ext4  linux-hardening  linux-cve-announce  PHC 
Open Source and information security mailing list archives
 
Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.
[<prev] [next>] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Date:	Wed, 27 Oct 2010 19:40:48 +0400
From:	Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@...il.com>
To:	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Mike Miller <mike.miller@...com>, Jens Axboe <jaxboe@...ionio.com>,
	"Stephen M. Cameron" <scameron@...rdog.cce.hp.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	iss_storagedev@...com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] 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 contents of kernel stack memory.

Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@...il.com>
---
 Compile tested.

 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 f09e6df..13d87a0 100644
--- a/drivers/block/cciss.c
+++ b/drivers/block/cciss.c
@@ -1184,6 +1184,7 @@ static int cciss_ioctl32_big_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,
-- 
1.7.0.4

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

Powered by blists - more mailing lists

Powered by Openwall GNU/*/Linux Powered by OpenVZ