From 1661bf364ae9c506bc8795fef70d1532931be1e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Carpenter Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 00:27:20 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] net: heap overflow in __audit_sockaddr() MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit We need to cap ->msg_namelen or it leads to a buffer overflow when we to the memcpy() in __audit_sockaddr(). It requires CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL to exploit this bug. The call tree is: ___sys_recvmsg() move_addr_to_user() audit_sockaddr() __audit_sockaddr() Reported-by: Jüri Aedla Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Reading git-format-patch failed