netdev - [patch] gre: information leak in ip6_tnl

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Message-ID: <20120816131404.GA23188@elgon.mountain>
Date:	Thu, 16 Aug 2012 16:14:04 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:	xeb@...l.ru
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
	James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>,
	Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] gre: information leak in ip6_tnl_ioctl()

There is a one byte hole between p->hop_limit and p->flowinfo where
stack memory is leaked to the user.  This was introduced in c12b395a46
"gre: Support GRE over IPv6".

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
---
This is only needed in linux-next.

diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c
index 33d2a0e..cb7e2de 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c
@@ -1312,6 +1312,8 @@ ip6_tnl_ioctl(struct net_device *dev, struct ifreq *ifr, int cmd)
 			}
 			ip6_tnl_parm_from_user(&p1, &p);
 			t = ip6_tnl_locate(net, &p1, 0);
+		} else {
+			memset(&p, 0, sizeof(p));
 		}
 		if (t == NULL)
 			t = netdev_priv(dev);
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