netdev - [PATCH] fix infoleak in llc

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Message-Id: <1462307705-5882-1-git-send-email-kjlu@gatech.edu>
Date:	Tue,  3 May 2016 16:35:05 -0400
From:	Kangjie Lu <kangjielu@...il.com>
To:	acme@...stprotocols.net
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, taesoo@...ech.edu, insu@...ech.edu,
	Kangjie Lu <kjlu@...ech.edu>
Subject: [PATCH] fix infoleak in llc

The stack object “info” has a total size of 12 bytes. Its last byte
is padding which is not initialized and leaked via “put_cmsg”.

Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@...ech.edu>
---
 net/llc/af_llc.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/net/llc/af_llc.c b/net/llc/af_llc.c
index b3c52e3..8ae3ed9 100644
--- a/net/llc/af_llc.c
+++ b/net/llc/af_llc.c
@@ -626,6 +626,7 @@ static void llc_cmsg_rcv(struct msghdr *msg, struct sk_buff *skb)
 	if (llc->cmsg_flags & LLC_CMSG_PKTINFO) {
 		struct llc_pktinfo info;
 
+		memset(&info, 0, sizeof(info));
 		info.lpi_ifindex = llc_sk(skb->sk)->dev->ifindex;
 		llc_pdu_decode_dsap(skb, &info.lpi_sap);
 		llc_pdu_decode_da(skb, info.lpi_mac);
-- 
1.9.1