linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.9 76/90] batman-adv: Avoid probe ELP information leak

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Message-Id: <20200319123951.944994893@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Thu, 19 Mar 2020 14:00:38 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Sven Eckelmann <sven@...fation.org>,
        Antonio Quartulli <a@...table.cc>,
        Simon Wunderlich <sw@...onwunderlich.de>
Subject: [PATCH 4.9 76/90] batman-adv: Avoid probe ELP information leak

From: Sven Eckelmann <sven@...fation.org>

commit 88d0895d0ea9d4431507d576c963f2ff9918144d upstream.

The probe ELPs for WiFi interfaces are expanded to contain at least
BATADV_ELP_MIN_PROBE_SIZE bytes. This is usually a lot more than the
number of bytes which the template ELP packet requires.

These extra padding bytes were not initialized and thus could contain data
which were previously stored at the same location. It is therefore required
to set it to some predefined or random values to avoid leaking private
information from the system transmitting these kind of packets.

Fixes: e4623c913508 ("batman-adv: Avoid probe ELP information leak")
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@...fation.org>
Acked-by: Antonio Quartulli <a@...table.cc>
Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <sw@...onwunderlich.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 net/batman-adv/bat_v_elp.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/net/batman-adv/bat_v_elp.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/bat_v_elp.c
@@ -191,6 +191,7 @@ batadv_v_elp_wifi_neigh_probe(struct bat
 	struct sk_buff *skb;
 	int probe_len, i;
 	int elp_skb_len;
+	void *tmp;
 
 	/* this probing routine is for Wifi neighbours only */
 	if (!batadv_is_wifi_netdev(hard_iface->net_dev))
@@ -222,7 +223,8 @@ batadv_v_elp_wifi_neigh_probe(struct bat
 		 * the packet to be exactly of that size to make the link
 		 * throughput estimation effective.
 		 */
-		skb_put(skb, probe_len - hard_iface->bat_v.elp_skb->len);
+		tmp = skb_put(skb, probe_len - hard_iface->bat_v.elp_skb->len);
+		memset(tmp, 0, probe_len - hard_iface->bat_v.elp_skb->len);
 
 		batadv_dbg(BATADV_DBG_BATMAN, bat_priv,
 			   "Sending unicast (probe) ELP packet on interface %s to %pM\n",