Tools: hv: verify origin of netlink connector message

The SuSE security team suggested to use recvfrom instead of recv to be
certain that the connector message is originated from kernel.

CVE-2012-2669

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Signed-off-by: Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Krahmer <krahmer@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c b/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c
index 146fd6147e84be5cde2a66009f331f1b6ee2b805..d9834b36294373f88d29731350ccc9d384b41788 100644 (file)
--- a/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c
+++ b/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c
@@ -701,14 +701,18 @@ int main(void)
        pfd.fd = fd;
 
        while (1) {
+               struct sockaddr *addr_p = (struct sockaddr *) &addr;
+               socklen_t addr_l = sizeof(addr);
                pfd.events = POLLIN;
                pfd.revents = 0;
                poll(&pfd, 1, -1);
 
-               len = recv(fd, kvp_recv_buffer, sizeof(kvp_recv_buffer), 0);
+               len = recvfrom(fd, kvp_recv_buffer, sizeof(kvp_recv_buffer), 0,
+                               addr_p, &addr_l);
 
-               if (len < 0) {
-                       syslog(LOG_ERR, "recv failed; error:%d", len);
+               if (len < 0 || addr.nl_pid) {
+                       syslog(LOG_ERR, "recvfrom failed; pid:%u error:%d %s",
+                                       addr.nl_pid, errno, strerror(errno));
                        close(fd);
                        return -1;
                }