File xsa122.patch of Package xen.481

References: bsc#918998 CVE-2015-2045 XSA-122

pre-fill structures for certain HYPERVISOR_xen_version sub-ops

... avoiding to pass hypervisor stack contents back to the caller
through space unused by the respective strings.

This is CVE-2015-2045 / XSA-122.

Acked-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>

--- a/xen/common/kernel.c
+++ b/xen/common/kernel.c
@@ -233,6 +233,8 @@ DO(xen_version)(int cmd, XEN_GUEST_HANDL
     case XENVER_extraversion:
     {
         xen_extraversion_t extraversion;
+
+        memset(extraversion, 0, sizeof(extraversion));
         safe_strcpy(extraversion, xen_extra_version());
         if ( copy_to_guest(arg, extraversion, ARRAY_SIZE(extraversion)) )
             return -EFAULT;
@@ -242,6 +244,8 @@ DO(xen_version)(int cmd, XEN_GUEST_HANDL
     case XENVER_compile_info:
     {
         struct xen_compile_info info;
+
+        memset(&info, 0, sizeof(info));
         safe_strcpy(info.compiler,       xen_compiler());
         safe_strcpy(info.compile_by,     xen_compile_by());
         safe_strcpy(info.compile_domain, xen_compile_domain());
@@ -277,6 +281,8 @@ DO(xen_version)(int cmd, XEN_GUEST_HANDL
     case XENVER_changeset:
     {
         xen_changeset_info_t chgset;
+
+        memset(chgset, 0, sizeof(chgset));
         safe_strcpy(chgset, xen_changeset());
         if ( copy_to_guest(arg, chgset, ARRAY_SIZE(chgset)) )
             return -EFAULT;
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