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authorVasiliy Kulikov <segooon@gmail.com>2010-10-30 18:22:49 +0400
committerPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>2011-04-17 16:15:41 -0400
commit3a0d44ddfa469f86c16c8daf005a372b19ea1f9e (patch)
tree2a9867e642a9b008292498ddf17f5cc69887cf0d /ipc
parent5819449cad881107f3fd52025b7a0f5134ab1c85 (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: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.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 1a314c89f93..2225a773740 100644
--- a/ipc/shm.c
+++ b/ipc/shm.c
@@ -476,6 +476,7 @@ 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;