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Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2013 19:02:00 +0100
From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE Request: Linux kernel: net: uninitialised memory leakage
Hello!
On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 11:10:46PM +0530, P J P wrote:
> Linux kernel built with the networking support(CONFIG_NET), is vulnerable
> to a memory leakage flaw. It occurs while doing the recvmsg(2),
> recvfrom(2), recvmmsg(2) socket calls.
>
> A user/program could use this flaw to leak kernel memory bytes.
>
> Upstream fix:
> -------------
> ->
> https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/davem/net.git/commit/?id=bceaa90240b6019ed73b49965eac7d167610be69
This patch does break stuff, a follow-up is needed which did not get
to Linus yet, but is already queued up for stable. Otherwise traceroute
is broken:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/davem/net.git/commit/?id=85fbaa75037d0b6b786ff18658ddf0b4014ce2a4
I found other leaks in non-inet protocols:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/davem/net.git/commit/?id=f3d3342602f8bcbf37d7c46641cb9bca7618eb1c
The protocols where I did remove msg_namelen = 0 where actually
safe. Some of the protocols I did not touch could leak up to 128 bytes
of uninitialized data from the stack.
Hardening against out-of-bounds writes:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/davem/net.git/commit/?id=68c6beb373955da0886d8f4f5995b3922ceda4be
Also there is a small 2-bytes memory leak in extended error reporting:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/davem/net.git/commit/?id=68c6beb373955da0886d8f4f5995b3922ceda4be
Greetings,
Hannes
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