[PATCH] staging: comedi: fix infoleak to userspace

Vasiliy Kulikov segoon at openwall.com
Sun Jun 26 08:56:22 UTC 2011


driver_name and board_name are pointers to strings, not buffers of size
COMEDI_NAMELEN.  Copying COMEDI_NAMELEN bytes of a string containing
less than COMEDI_NAMELEN-1 bytes would leak some unrelated bytes.

Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon at openwall.com>
---
 drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c
index e7e72b8..c20694e 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_fops.c
@@ -383,8 +383,8 @@ static int do_devinfo_ioctl(struct comedi_device *dev,
 	/* fill devinfo structure */
 	devinfo.version_code = COMEDI_VERSION_CODE;
 	devinfo.n_subdevs = dev->n_subdevices;
-	memcpy(devinfo.driver_name, dev->driver->driver_name, COMEDI_NAMELEN);
-	memcpy(devinfo.board_name, dev->board_name, COMEDI_NAMELEN);
+	strlcpy(devinfo.driver_name, dev->driver->driver_name, COMEDI_NAMELEN);
+	strlcpy(devinfo.board_name, dev->board_name, COMEDI_NAMELEN);
 
 	if (read_subdev)
 		devinfo.read_subdevice = read_subdev - dev->subdevices;
-- 
1.7.0.4




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