Commit 7c777506 authored by Kangjie Lu's avatar Kangjie Lu Committed by Kamal Mostafa

tipc: fix an infoleak in tipc_nl_compat_link_dump

link_info.str is a char array of size 60. Memory after the NULL
byte is not initialized. Sending the whole object out can cause
a leak.
Signed-off-by: default avatarKangjie Lu <kjlu@gatech.edu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
(cherry picked from commit 5d2be142)
CVE-2016-5243
BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1589036Signed-off-by: default avatarLuis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>
Acked-by: default avatarBrad Figg <brad.figg@canonical.com>
Acked-by: default avatarTim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
parent fb4db11b
......@@ -574,7 +574,8 @@ static int tipc_nl_compat_link_dump(struct tipc_nl_compat_msg *msg,
link_info.dest = nla_get_flag(link[TIPC_NLA_LINK_DEST]);
link_info.up = htonl(nla_get_flag(link[TIPC_NLA_LINK_UP]));
strcpy(link_info.str, nla_data(link[TIPC_NLA_LINK_NAME]));
nla_strlcpy(link_info.str, nla_data(link[TIPC_NLA_LINK_NAME]),
TIPC_MAX_LINK_NAME);
return tipc_add_tlv(msg->rep, TIPC_TLV_LINK_INFO,
&link_info, sizeof(link_info));
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