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authorVasiliy Kulikov <segooon@gmail.com>2010-10-30 18:22:49 +0400
committerAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>2010-12-14 23:40:07 +0100
commite4b338bfb1e607111ab7b56cb6d497b08567c7e3 (patch)
treec700f5d31a19d21313d06d2c0c27101632158fd1 /ipc
parent154893c8527b3eba012328c43736dfb918627edb (diff)
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> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'ipc')
-rw-r--r--ipc/shm.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/ipc/shm.c b/ipc/shm.c
index 52ed77eb9713..b42738067146 100644
--- a/ipc/shm.c
+++ b/ipc/shm.c
@@ -473,6 +473,7 @@ 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;