From c84299b8ddb3de60ac857aee396d709346eed27f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Olaf Hering Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 16:40:06 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Tools: hv: verify origin of netlink connector message commit bcc2c9c3fff859e0eb019fe6fec26f9b8eba795c upstream. The SuSE security team suggested to use recvfrom instead of recv to be certain that the connector message is originated from kernel. CVE-2012-2669 Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering Signed-off-by: Marcus Meissner Signed-off-by: Sebastian Krahmer Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c | 10 +++++++--- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c b/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c index 146fd61..d9834b3 100644 --- a/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c +++ b/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c @@ -701,14 +701,18 @@ int main(void) pfd.fd = fd; while (1) { + struct sockaddr *addr_p = (struct sockaddr *) &addr; + socklen_t addr_l = sizeof(addr); pfd.events = POLLIN; pfd.revents = 0; poll(&pfd, 1, -1); - len = recv(fd, kvp_recv_buffer, sizeof(kvp_recv_buffer), 0); + len = recvfrom(fd, kvp_recv_buffer, sizeof(kvp_recv_buffer), 0, + addr_p, &addr_l); - if (len < 0) { - syslog(LOG_ERR, "recv failed; error:%d", len); + if (len < 0 || addr.nl_pid) { + syslog(LOG_ERR, "recvfrom failed; pid:%u error:%d %s", + addr.nl_pid, errno, strerror(errno)); close(fd); return -1; } -- 2.7.4