From: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2012 11:33:38 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: xfrm_user: fix info leak in copy_to_user_auth()
X-Git-Tag: v3.6-rc7~10^2~16
X-Git-Url: https://openfabrics.org/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4c87308bdea31a7b4828a51f6156e6f721a1fcc9;p=~emulex%2Finfiniband.git

xfrm_user: fix info leak in copy_to_user_auth()

copy_to_user_auth() fails to initialize the remainder of alg_name and
therefore discloses up to 54 bytes of heap memory via netlink to
userland.

Use strncpy() instead of strcpy() to fill the trailing bytes of alg_name
with null bytes.

Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>
Acked-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---

diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c
index d12b62547ad..40dd50d6c4c 100644
--- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c
+++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c
@@ -742,7 +742,7 @@ static int copy_to_user_auth(struct xfrm_algo_auth *auth, struct sk_buff *skb)
 		return -EMSGSIZE;
 
 	algo = nla_data(nla);
-	strcpy(algo->alg_name, auth->alg_name);
+	strncpy(algo->alg_name, auth->alg_name, sizeof(algo->alg_name));
 	memcpy(algo->alg_key, auth->alg_key, (auth->alg_key_len + 7) / 8);
 	algo->alg_key_len = auth->alg_key_len;