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authorVasiliy Kulikov <segooon@gmail.com>2010-10-30 18:22:49 +0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2010-12-09 13:24:17 -0800
commit77f5c399311bd4a6d8836dbd788dd0e45a582d15 (patch)
tree4aeef8e0c7eeed930ea9670f706ba2fcd99d9f77
parentf6d7c2efda237f01fedc31965d056226e0df6a1d (diff)
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ipc: shm: fix information leak to userland
commit 3af54c9bd9e6f14f896aac1bb0e8405ae0bc7a44 upstream. The shmid_ds structure is copied to userland with shm_unused{,2,3} fields unitialized. It leads to leaking of contents of kernel stack memory. Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segooon@gmail.com> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
-rw-r--r--ipc/shm.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/ipc/shm.c b/ipc/shm.c
index 37caa449e9ec..dfca4d839112 100644
--- a/ipc/shm.c
+++ b/ipc/shm.c
@@ -469,6 +469,7 @@ static inline unsigned long copy_shmid_to_user(void __user *buf, struct shmid64_
{
struct shmid_ds out;
+ memset(&out, 0, sizeof(out));
ipc64_perm_to_ipc_perm(&in->shm_perm, &out.shm_perm);
out.shm_segsz = in->shm_segsz;
out.shm_atime = in->shm_atime;