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Date: Tue, 02 Jul 2013 14:50:06 -0600
From: Kurt Seifried <kseifried@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: Marcus Meissner <meissner@...e.de>
Subject: Re: CVE Request: information leak in AF_KEY notify
 messages

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On 07/01/2013 09:10 AM, Marcus Meissner wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> found in the mainline kernel git:
> 
> commit a5cc68f3d63306d0d288f31edfc2ae6ef8ecd887 Author: Mathias
> Krause <minipli@...glemail.com> Date:   Wed Jun 26 23:52:30 2013
> +0200
> 
> af_key: fix info leaks in notify messages
> 
> key_notify_sa_flush() and key_notify_policy_flush() miss to
> initialize the sadb_msg_reserved member of the broadcasted message
> and thereby leak 2 bytes of heap memory to listeners. Fix that.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@...glemail.com> Cc: Steffen
> Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com> Cc: "David S. Miller"
> <davem@...emloft.net> Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> 
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
> 
> Ciao, Marcus
> 

FYI please include link to commit, makes life quicker.

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a5cc68f3d63306d0d288f31edfc2ae6ef8ecd887

Please use CVE-2013-2234 for this issue.

- -- 
Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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