From: "David S. Miller" <[email protected]>
The user can pass us arbitrary garbage so we should ensure the
string they give us is null terminated before we pass it on
to dev_get_by_index() et al.
Found by Solar Designer.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
net/core/sock.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- linux-2.6.15.6.orig/net/core/sock.c
+++ linux-2.6.15.6/net/core/sock.c
@@ -403,8 +403,9 @@ set_rcvbuf:
if (!valbool) {
sk->sk_bound_dev_if = 0;
} else {
- if (optlen > IFNAMSIZ)
- optlen = IFNAMSIZ;
+ if (optlen > IFNAMSIZ - 1)
+ optlen = IFNAMSIZ - 1;
+ memset(devname, 0, sizeof(devname));
if (copy_from_user(devname, optval, optlen)) {
ret = -EFAULT;
break;
-
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