From 19714a8af8fe8618a9beace1f7a3bb10d55d5e2f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vasiliy Kulikov Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 15:34:21 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] drivers/char/applicom.c: fix information leak to userland Structure st_loc is copied to userland with some fields unitialized. It leads to leaking of stack memory. Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- drivers/char/applicom.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/char/applicom.c b/drivers/char/applicom.c index e7ba774beda6..25373df1dcf8 100644 --- a/drivers/char/applicom.c +++ b/drivers/char/applicom.c @@ -566,6 +566,7 @@ static ssize_t ac_read (struct file *filp, char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_ struct mailbox mailbox; /* Got a packet for us */ + memset(&st_loc, 0, sizeof(st_loc)); ret = do_ac_read(i, buf, &st_loc, &mailbox); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&apbs[i].mutex, flags); set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING); -- 2.20.1