Linux Kernel 3.18.7 sysctl_net_llc.c local sensitive information leak

2015.04.24
Credit: Sasha Levin
Risk: Medium
Local: Yes
Remote: No
CWE: CWE-17


CVSS Base Score: 4.6/10
Impact Subscore: 6.4/10
Exploitability Subscore: 3.9/10
Exploit range: Local
Attack complexity: Low
Authentication: No required
Confidentiality impact: Partial
Integrity impact: Partial
Availability impact: Partial

net: llc: use correct size for sysctl timeout entries The timeout entries are sizeof(int) rather than sizeof(long), which means that when they were getting read we'd also leak kernel memory to userspace along with the timeout values. diff --git a/net/llc/sysctl_net_llc.c b/net/llc/sysctl_net_llc.c index 612a5dd..799bafc 100644 --- a/net/llc/sysctl_net_llc.c +++ b/net/llc/sysctl_net_llc.c @@ -18,28 +18,28 @@ static struct ctl_table llc2_timeout_table[] = { { .procname = "ack", .data = &sysctl_llc2_ack_timeout, - .maxlen = sizeof(long), + .maxlen = sizeof(sysctl_llc2_ack_timeout), .mode = 0644, .proc_handler = proc_dointvec_jiffies, }, { .procname = "busy", .data = &sysctl_llc2_busy_timeout, - .maxlen = sizeof(long), + .maxlen = sizeof(sysctl_llc2_busy_timeout), .mode = 0644, .proc_handler = proc_dointvec_jiffies, }, { .procname = "p", .data = &sysctl_llc2_p_timeout, - .maxlen = sizeof(long), + .maxlen = sizeof(sysctl_llc2_p_timeout), .mode = 0644, .proc_handler = proc_dointvec_jiffies, }, { .procname = "rej", .data = &sysctl_llc2_rej_timeout, - .maxlen = sizeof(long), + .maxlen = sizeof(sysctl_llc2_rej_timeout), .mode = 0644, .proc_handler = proc_dointvec_jiffies, },

References:

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=6b8d9117ccb4f81b1244aafa7bc70ef8fa45fc49


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