[PATCH] net: sctp: prevent writes to cookie_hmac_alg from accessing invalid memory

From: Sasha Levin
Date: Thu Jan 07 2016 - 14:53:18 EST


proc_dostring() needs an initialized destination string, while the one
provided in proc_sctp_do_hmac_alg() contains stack garbage.

Thus, writing to cookie_hmac_alg would strlen() that garbage and end up
accessing invalid memory.

Fixes: 3c68198e7 ("sctp: Make hmac algorithm selection for cookie generation dynamic")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/sctp/sysctl.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/sctp/sysctl.c b/net/sctp/sysctl.c
index ccbfc93..daf8554 100644
--- a/net/sctp/sysctl.c
+++ b/net/sctp/sysctl.c
@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ static int proc_sctp_do_hmac_alg(struct ctl_table *ctl, int write,
struct ctl_table tbl;
bool changed = false;
char *none = "none";
- char tmp[8];
+ char tmp[8] = {0};
int ret;

memset(&tbl, 0, sizeof(struct ctl_table));
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1.7.10.4