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;