Commit d618d47f authored by Tyler Hicks's avatar Tyler Hicks Committed by Kleber Sacilotto de Souza

UBUNTU: SAUCE: irda: Fix memory leak caused by repeated binds of irda socket

The irda_bind() function allocates memory for self->ias_obj without
checking to see if the socket is already bound. A userspace process
could repeatedly bind the socket, have each new object added into the
LM-IAS database, and lose the reference to the old object assigned to
the socket to exhaust memory resources. This patch errors out of the
bind operation when self->ias_obj is already assigned.

CVE-2018-6554

Fixes: 1da177e4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: default avatarTyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarSeth Arnold <seth.arnold@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarStefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Acked-by: default avatarColin Ian King <colin.king@canonical.com>
Acked-by: default avatarKamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarKleber Sacilotto de Souza <kleber.souza@canonical.com>
parent 4fa00915
......@@ -774,6 +774,13 @@ static int irda_bind(struct socket *sock, struct sockaddr *uaddr, int addr_len)
return -EINVAL;
lock_sock(sk);
/* Ensure that the socket is not already bound */
if (self->ias_obj) {
err = -EINVAL;
goto out;
}
#ifdef CONFIG_IRDA_ULTRA
/* Special care for Ultra sockets */
if ((sk->sk_type == SOCK_DGRAM) &&
......
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