linux-kernel - [34-longterm 079/196] net: ax25: fix information leak to userland harder

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Date:	Mon, 12 Mar 2012 20:19:52 -0400
From:	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
To:	stable@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	stable-review@...nel.org, Kees Cook <kees.cook@...onical.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
Subject: [34-longterm 079/196] net: ax25: fix information leak to userland harder

From: Kees Cook <kees.cook@...onical.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 5b919f833d9d60588d026ad82d17f17e8872c7a9 upstream.

Commit fe10ae53384e48c51996941b7720ee16995cbcb7 adds a memset() to clear
the structure being sent back to userspace, but accidentally used the
wrong size.

Reported-by: Brad Spengler <spender@...ecurity.net>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@...onical.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>
---
 net/ax25/af_ax25.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/ax25/af_ax25.c b/net/ax25/af_ax25.c
index eb100ce..12c350c 100644
--- a/net/ax25/af_ax25.c
+++ b/net/ax25/af_ax25.c
@@ -1392,7 +1392,7 @@ static int ax25_getname(struct socket *sock, struct sockaddr *uaddr,
 	ax25_cb *ax25;
 	int err = 0;
 
-	memset(fsa, 0, sizeof(fsa));
+	memset(fsa, 0, sizeof(*fsa));
 	lock_sock(sk);
 	ax25 = ax25_sk(sk);
 
-- 
1.7.9.3

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