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[PATCH] econet: 4 byte infoleak to the network

From: Vasiliy Kulikov <hidden>
Date: 2011-03-17 11:40:20
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Subsystem: networking [general], the rest · Maintainers: "David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Linus Torvalds

struct aunhdr has 4 padding bytes between 'pad' and 'handle' fields on
x86_64.  These bytes are not initialized in the variable 'ah' before
sending 'ah' to the network.  This leads to 4 bytes kernel stack
infoleak.

This bug was introduced before the git epoch.

Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <redacted>
---
 net/econet/af_econet.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/econet/af_econet.c b/net/econet/af_econet.c
index 0c28263..116d3fd 100644
--- a/net/econet/af_econet.c
+++ b/net/econet/af_econet.c
@@ -435,10 +435,10 @@ static int econet_sendmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct socket *sock,
 		udpdest.sin_addr.s_addr = htonl(network | addr.station);
 	}
 
+	memset(&ah, 0, sizeof(ah));
 	ah.port = port;
 	ah.cb = cb & 0x7f;
 	ah.code = 2;		/* magic */
-	ah.pad = 0;
 
 	/* tack our header on the front of the iovec */
 	size = sizeof(struct aunhdr);
-- 
1.7.0.4
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