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irda: Only insert new objects into the global database via setsockopt
authorTyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com>
Tue, 4 Sep 2018 15:24:05 +0000 (15:24 +0000)
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Wed, 3 Oct 2018 03:10:07 +0000 (04:10 +0100)
commit46b57f819163e3a84ff00b31485ee0638dbf1fdc
tree47ac812d3bea65176751cee29f8492b21c8bd7c1
parentaf8f681e48239817afb290f4e8ee3ca094f513e6
irda: Only insert new objects into the global database via setsockopt

The irda_setsockopt() function conditionally allocates memory for a new
self->ias_object or, in some cases, reuses the existing
self->ias_object. Existing objects were incorrectly reinserted into the
LM_IAS database which corrupted the doubly linked list used for the
hashbin implementation of the LM_IAS database. When combined with a
memory leak in irda_bind(), this issue could be leveraged to create a
use-after-free vulnerability in the hashbin list. This patch fixes the
issue by only inserting newly allocated objects into the database.

CVE-2018-6555

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>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
net/irda/af_irda.c