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

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Message-Id: <1302803039-9400-76-git-send-email-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Date:	Thu, 14 Apr 2011 13:41:45 -0400
From:	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
To:	stable@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	stable-review@...nel.org, Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@...il.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
Subject: [34-longterm 075/209] usb: misc: sisusbvga: fix information leak to userland

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

  =====================================================================
  | This is a commit scheduled for the next v2.6.34 longterm release. |
  | If you see a problem with using this for longterm, please comment.|
  =====================================================================

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@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
---
 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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