drivers/net/usb/hso.c: prevent reading uninitialized memory
authorDan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>
Wed, 15 Sep 2010 11:43:28 +0000 (11:43 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Mon, 27 Sep 2010 00:21:22 +0000 (17:21 -0700)
commit 7011e660938fc44ed86319c18a5954e95a82ab3e upstream.

Fixed formatting (tabs and line breaks).

The TIOCGICOUNT device ioctl allows unprivileged users to read
uninitialized stack memory, because the "reserved" member of the
serial_icounter_struct struct declared on the stack in hso_get_count()
is not altered or zeroed before being copied back to the user.  This
patch takes care of it.

Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <dan.j.rosenberg@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
drivers/net/usb/hso.c

index 43bc3fcc0d8523e837a07dcd40f3b3ca738fe218..f450bc9a89ac23851a3889594e3bebb7b67a43c7 100644 (file)
@@ -1634,6 +1634,8 @@ static int hso_get_count(struct hso_serial *serial,
        struct uart_icount cnow;
        struct hso_tiocmget  *tiocmget = serial->tiocmget;
 
+       memset(&icount, 0, sizeof(struct serial_icounter_struct));
+
        if (!tiocmget)
                 return -ENOENT;
        spin_lock_irq(&serial->serial_lock);