oss-security - CVE Request: kernel information leak vulnerability in llc module

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Date: Wed, 4 May 2016 16:43:36 -0400
From: Kangjie Lu <kangjielu@...il.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, Chengyu Song <csong84@...ech.edu>, 
	Taesoo Kim <taesoo@...ech.edu>, Insu Yun <insu@...ech.edu>
Subject: CVE Request: kernel information leak vulnerability in llc module

Hello,

We found a kernel information leak vulnerability in the llc module.
In the file "net/llc/af_llc.c", The stack object “info” has a total size of
12 bytes. Its last byte is padding which is not initialized and leaked
via “put_cmsg”.

Our patch to this vulnerability has been accepted and applied by
linux kernel maintainer (please refer to the message bellow).

Fix info:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=146239325130106&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=146239321930088&w=2

Please help assign a CVE to this vulnerability.

Thanks a lot!
Kangjie Lu

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Date: Wed, May 4, 2016 at 4:20 PM
Subject: Re: [PATCH] fix infoleak in llc
To: kangjielu@...il.com
Cc: acme@...stprotocols.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, taesoo@...ech.edu, insu@...ech.edu,
kjlu@...ech.edu

From: Kangjie Lu <kangjielu@...il.com>
Date: Tue,  3 May 2016 16:35:05 -0400

> The stack object “info” has a total size of 12 bytes. Its last byte
> is padding which is not initialized and leaked via “put_cmsg”.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@...ech.edu>

Applied.

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