From: Mathias Krause Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 11:31:45 +0000 Subject: atm: fix info leak via getsockname() [ Upstream commit 3c0c5cfdcd4d69ffc4b9c0907cec99039f30a50a ] The ATM code fails to initialize the two padding bytes of struct sockaddr_atmpvc inserted for alignment. Add an explicit memset(0) before filling the structure to avoid the info leak. Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- net/atm/pvc.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/net/atm/pvc.c b/net/atm/pvc.c index 3a73491..ae03240 100644 --- a/net/atm/pvc.c +++ b/net/atm/pvc.c @@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ static int pvc_getname(struct socket *sock, struct sockaddr *sockaddr, return -ENOTCONN; *sockaddr_len = sizeof(struct sockaddr_atmpvc); addr = (struct sockaddr_atmpvc *)sockaddr; + memset(addr, 0, sizeof(*addr)); addr->sap_family = AF_ATMPVC; addr->sap_addr.itf = vcc->dev->number; addr->sap_addr.vpi = vcc->vpi;