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authorBlaisorblade2005-07-27 11:45:18 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds2005-07-27 16:26:08 -0700
commit71ae18ec690953e9ba7107c7cc44589c2cc0d9f1 (patch)
treef2a0c8e0b67120d61f9216638482d5f472e27f29 /arch/i386/kernel/process.c
parent44456d37b59d8e541936ed26d8b6e08d27e88ac1 (diff)
[PATCH] sys_get_thread_area does not clear the returned argument
sys_get_thread_area does not memset to 0 its struct user_desc info before copying it to user space... since sizeof(struct user_desc) is 16 while the actual datas which are filled are only 12 bytes + 9 bits (across the bitfields), there is a (small) information leak. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/i386/kernel/process.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/i386/kernel/process.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/kernel/process.c b/arch/i386/kernel/process.c
index d9492058aaf3..e3f362e8af5b 100644
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/process.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/process.c
@@ -917,6 +917,8 @@ asmlinkage int sys_get_thread_area(struct user_desc __user *u_info)
if (idx < GDT_ENTRY_TLS_MIN || idx > GDT_ENTRY_TLS_MAX)
return -EINVAL;
+ memset(&info, 0, sizeof(info));
+
desc = current->thread.tls_array + idx - GDT_ENTRY_TLS_MIN;
info.entry_number = idx;