The following commit has been merged in the next branch:
commit 4aae8042b3df7ac9a74177f799cb26186623e2e7
Author: Sven Eckelmann <sven(a)narfation.org>
Date: Thu Jun 28 11:56:52 2012 +0200
batman-adv: Don't leak information through uninitialized packet fields
The reserved fields in batman-adv packets are not set to a constant value. The
content of these memory regions is leaked unintentionally to the network.
This regression was introduced in c7fb529996cbc47bc8243d6860dac716ae70af82
Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven(a)narfation.org>
diff --git a/soft-interface.c b/soft-interface.c
index b7c655c..9e4bb61 100644
--- a/soft-interface.c
+++ b/soft-interface.c
@@ -214,6 +214,7 @@ static int batadv_interface_tx(struct sk_buff *skb,
/* batman packet type: broadcast */
bcast_packet->header.packet_type = BATADV_BCAST;
+ bcast_packet->reserved = 0;
/* hw address of first interface is the orig mac because only
* this mac is known throughout the mesh
diff --git a/translation-table.c b/translation-table.c
index 245cc9a..a438f4b 100644
--- a/translation-table.c
+++ b/translation-table.c
@@ -2052,6 +2052,7 @@ static void batadv_send_roam_adv(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv,
uint8_t *client,
roam_adv_packet->header.packet_type = BATADV_ROAM_ADV;
roam_adv_packet->header.version = BATADV_COMPAT_VERSION;
roam_adv_packet->header.ttl = BATADV_TTL;
+ roam_adv_packet->reserved = 0;
primary_if = batadv_primary_if_get_selected(bat_priv);
if (!primary_if)
goto out;
diff --git a/vis.c b/vis.c
index f09cc9a..2a2ea06 100644
--- a/vis.c
+++ b/vis.c
@@ -589,6 +589,7 @@ static int batadv_generate_vis_packet(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv)
packet->header.ttl = BATADV_TTL;
packet->seqno = htonl(ntohl(packet->seqno) + 1);
packet->entries = 0;
+ packet->reserved = 0;
skb_trim(info->skb_packet, sizeof(*packet));
if (packet->vis_type == BATADV_VIS_TYPE_CLIENT_UPDATE) {
@@ -890,6 +891,7 @@ int batadv_vis_init(struct batadv_priv *bat_priv)
packet->header.packet_type = BATADV_VIS;
packet->header.ttl = BATADV_TTL;
packet->seqno = 0;
+ packet->reserved = 0;
packet->entries = 0;
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&bat_priv->vis_send_list);
--
batman-adv
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