xfrm_user: fix info leak in copy_to_user_auth()
authorMathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Wed, 19 Sep 2012 11:33:38 +0000 (11:33 +0000)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Wed, 10 Oct 2012 02:31:22 +0000 (03:31 +0100)
[ Upstream commit 4c87308bdea31a7b4828a51f6156e6f721a1fcc9 ]

copy_to_user_auth() fails to initialize the remainder of alg_name and
therefore discloses up to 54 bytes of heap memory via netlink to
userland.

Use strncpy() instead of strcpy() to fill the trailing bytes of alg_name
with null bytes.

Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Acked-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c

index 1221b77..7f53c82 100644 (file)
@@ -742,7 +742,7 @@ static int copy_to_user_auth(struct xfrm_algo_auth *auth, struct sk_buff *skb)
                return -EMSGSIZE;
 
        algo = nla_data(nla);
-       strcpy(algo->alg_name, auth->alg_name);
+       strncpy(algo->alg_name, auth->alg_name, sizeof(algo->alg_name));
        memcpy(algo->alg_key, auth->alg_key, (auth->alg_key_len + 7) / 8);
        algo->alg_key_len = auth->alg_key_len;