irda: Fix memory leak caused by repeated binds of irda socket
authorTyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com>
Tue, 4 Sep 2018 15:24:04 +0000 (15:24 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 15 Sep 2018 07:43:01 +0000 (09:43 +0200)
commitce54bf4aec595c479b462180d682783b3776fb80
tree2cd13b00b4522cec665dfcf5ab947b6c3cd42ce8
parenta75228044ef6f99b057784d46b98df0cd0dd8a5b
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>
net/irda/af_irda.c