Commit 84d73cd3 authored Mar 09, 2013 by Mathias Krause Committed by David S. Miller Mar 10, 2013

rtnl: fix info leak on RTM_GETLINK request for VF devices



Initialize the mac address buffer with 0 as the driver specific function
will probably not fill the whole buffer. In fact, all in-kernel drivers
fill only ETH_ALEN of the MAX_ADDR_LEN bytes, i.e. 6 of the 32 possible
bytes. Therefore we currently leak 26 bytes of stack memory to userland
via the netlink interface.

Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

parent c085c499

net/core/rtnetlink.c

+1 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -979,6 +979,7 @@ static int rtnl_fill_ifinfo(struct sk_buff skb, struct net_device dev,
		* report anything.
		*/
		ivi.spoofchk = -1;
		memset(ivi.mac, 0, sizeof(ivi.mac));
		if (dev->netdev_ops->ndo_get_vf_config(dev, i, &ivi))
		break;
		vf_mac.vf =

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