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author | Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com> | 2013-04-17 15:58:36 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2013-04-17 16:10:45 -0700 |
commit | b9e146d8eb3b9ecae5086d373b50fa0c1f3e7f0f (patch) | |
tree | 2b6d313cc798d76ea1f50e63fa60ceb1f753c89a /kernel/signal.c | |
parent | d72515b85a6583db131ec6032978e3c9d4291d95 (diff) | |
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kernel/signal.c: stop info leak via the tkill and the tgkill syscalls
This fixes a kernel memory contents leak via the tkill and tgkill syscalls
for compat processes.
This is visible in the siginfo_t->_sifields._rt.si_sigval.sival_ptr field
when handling signals delivered from tkill.
The place of the infoleak:
int copy_siginfo_to_user32(compat_siginfo_t __user *to, siginfo_t *from)
{
...
put_user_ex(ptr_to_compat(from->si_ptr), &to->si_ptr);
...
}
Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy <re.emese@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: PaX Team <pageexec@freemail.hu>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/signal.c')
-rw-r--r-- | kernel/signal.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c index dd72567767d9..598dc06be421 100644 --- a/kernel/signal.c +++ b/kernel/signal.c @@ -2948,7 +2948,7 @@ do_send_specific(pid_t tgid, pid_t pid, int sig, struct siginfo *info) static int do_tkill(pid_t tgid, pid_t pid, int sig) { - struct siginfo info; + struct siginfo info = {}; info.si_signo = sig; info.si_errno = 0; |