netdev - [PATCH] tipc: fix an infoleak in tipc_nl_compat_link

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Message-Id: <1464798895-26870-1-git-send-email-kjlu@gatech.edu>
Date:	Wed,  1 Jun 2016 12:34:55 -0400
From:	Kangjie Lu <kangjielu@...il.com>
To:	jon.maloy@...csson.com
Cc:	ying.xue@...driver.com, davem@...emloft.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	taesoo@...ech.edu, csong84@...ech.edu, Kangjie Lu <kjlu@...ech.edu>
Subject: [PATCH] tipc: fix an infoleak in tipc_nl_compat_link_dump

link_info.str is a char array of size 60. Memory after the NULL
byte is not initialized. Sending the whole object out can cause
a leak.

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

diff --git a/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c b/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c
index f795b1d..115aafa 100644
--- a/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c
+++ b/net/tipc/netlink_compat.c
@@ -604,6 +604,7 @@ static int tipc_nl_compat_link_dump(struct tipc_nl_compat_msg *msg,
 
 	link_info.dest = nla_get_flag(link[TIPC_NLA_LINK_DEST]);
 	link_info.up = htonl(nla_get_flag(link[TIPC_NLA_LINK_UP]));
+	memset((void *)link_info.str, 0, TIPC_MAX_LINK_NAME);
 	strcpy(link_info.str, nla_data(link[TIPC_NLA_LINK_NAME]));
 
 	return tipc_add_tlv(msg->rep, TIPC_TLV_LINK_INFO,
-- 
2.7.4