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authorLennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>2015-06-03 07:50:19 (GMT)
committerMarcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>2015-06-04 10:26:58 (GMT)
commit8a70cefa3037d62e7c0b6068a66675def1a330c9 (patch)
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ieee802154: Fix sockaddr_ieee802154 implicit padding information leak.
The AF_IEEE802154 sockaddr looks like this: struct sockaddr_ieee802154 { sa_family_t family; /* AF_IEEE802154 */ struct ieee802154_addr_sa addr; }; struct ieee802154_addr_sa { int addr_type; u16 pan_id; union { u8 hwaddr[IEEE802154_ADDR_LEN]; u16 short_addr; }; }; On most architectures there will be implicit structure padding here, in two different places: * In struct sockaddr_ieee802154, two bytes of padding between 'family' (unsigned short) and 'addr', so that 'addr' starts on a four byte boundary. * In struct ieee802154_addr_sa, two bytes at the end of the structure, to make the structure 16 bytes. When calling recvmsg(2) on a PF_IEEE802154 SOCK_DGRAM socket, the ieee802154 stack constructs a struct sockaddr_ieee802154 on the kernel stack without clearing these padding fields, and, depending on the addr_type, between four and ten bytes of uncleared kernel stack will be copied to userspace. We can't just insert two 'u16 __pad's in the right places and zero those before copying an address to userspace, as not all architectures insert this implicit padding -- from a quick test it seems that avr32, cris and m68k don't insert this padding, while every other architecture that I have cross compilers for does insert this padding. The easiest way to plug the leak is to just memset the whole struct sockaddr_ieee802154 before filling in the fields we want to fill in, and that's what this patch does. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org> Acked-by: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
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