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authorVasiliy Kulikov <segooon@gmail.com>2010-10-28 00:34:21 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-10-28 03:03:14 +0200
commit19714a8af8fe8618a9beace1f7a3bb10d55d5e2f (patch)
treecdeb07d5d1c2038d1f2251e8455075ccdfa4903e /drivers/char
parentsynclink_gt: fix per device locking (diff)
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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 <segooon@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/applicom.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
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);