From bcc2c9c3fff859e0eb019fe6fec26f9b8eba795c 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 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 Cc: stable 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 146fd6147e84..d9834b362943 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; } -- 2.30.2