[PATCH 7/8] char: synclink_gt: fix information leak to userland

From: Vasiliy Kulikov
Date: Sun Oct 17 2010 - 10:41:48 EST


Structures tmp_params and new_line are copied to userland with some padding
fields unitialized. It leads to leaking of stack memory.

Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Compile tested.

drivers/char/synclink_gt.c | 3 +++
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/synclink_gt.c b/drivers/char/synclink_gt.c
index 1746d91..c3c2cf8 100644
--- a/drivers/char/synclink_gt.c
+++ b/drivers/char/synclink_gt.c
@@ -1132,6 +1132,7 @@ static long get_params32(struct slgt_info *info, struct MGSL_PARAMS32 __user *us
struct MGSL_PARAMS32 tmp_params;

DBGINFO(("%s get_params32\n", info->device_name));
+ memset(&tmp_params, 0, sizeof(tmp_params));
tmp_params.mode = (compat_ulong_t)info->params.mode;
tmp_params.loopback = info->params.loopback;
tmp_params.flags = info->params.flags;
@@ -1617,6 +1618,8 @@ static int hdlcdev_ioctl(struct net_device *dev, struct ifreq *ifr, int cmd)
if (cmd != SIOCWANDEV)
return hdlc_ioctl(dev, ifr, cmd);

+ memset(&new_line, 0, sizeof(new_line));
+
switch(ifr->ifr_settings.type) {
case IF_GET_IFACE: /* return current sync_serial_settings */

--
1.7.0.4

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