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| author | Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com> | 2018-09-04 15:24:04 +0000 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2018-09-15 09:45:36 +0200 |
| commit | 77be9452d0e5768bab9a041a62116cbeb9dc3174 (patch) | |
| tree | a92d6ab324c8575ecbeb4e5d49d1843dafdd94dd /drivers/staging/irda | |
| parent | 63fd9d43c0181d668e632832e66c123faf66cfd3 (diff) | |
irda: Fix memory leak caused by repeated binds of irda socket
The irda_bind() function allocates memory for self->ias_obj without
checking to see if the socket is already bound. A userspace process
could repeatedly bind the socket, have each new object added into the
LM-IAS database, and lose the reference to the old object assigned to
the socket to exhaust memory resources. This patch errors out of the
bind operation when self->ias_obj is already assigned.
CVE-2018-6554
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Seth Arnold <seth.arnold@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/staging/irda')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/staging/irda/net/af_irda.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/staging/irda/net/af_irda.c b/drivers/staging/irda/net/af_irda.c index 23fa7c8b09a5..a08cd3dd7a6e 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/irda/net/af_irda.c +++ b/drivers/staging/irda/net/af_irda.c @@ -775,6 +775,13 @@ static int irda_bind(struct socket *sock, struct sockaddr *uaddr, int addr_len) return -EINVAL; lock_sock(sk); + + /* Ensure that the socket is not already bound */ + if (self->ias_obj) { + err = -EINVAL; + goto out; + } + #ifdef CONFIG_IRDA_ULTRA /* Special care for Ultra sockets */ if ((sk->sk_type == SOCK_DGRAM) && |