ALSA: timer: Fix leak in SNDRV_TIMER_IOCTL_PARAMS

The stack object “tread” has a total size of 32 bytes. Its field
“event” and “val” both contain 4 bytes padding. These 8 bytes
padding bytes are sent to user without being initialized.

Signed-off-by: Kangjie Lu <kjlu@gatech.edu>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Orabug: 25059408
CVE: CVE-2016-4569
Mainline v4.7 commit cec8f96e49d9be372fdb0c3836dcf31ec71e457e
Signed-off-by: Chuck Anderson <chuck.anderson@oracle.com>

diff --git a/sound/core/timer.c b/sound/core/timer.c
index a9a1a047c521ff510949f87ca21c192df9497187..72eb1dd6dc7640fe033573789d726bba045fd487 100644 (file)
--- a/sound/core/timer.c
+++ b/sound/core/timer.c
@@ -1670,6 +1670,7 @@ static int snd_timer_user_params(struct file *file,
        if (tu->timeri->flags & SNDRV_TIMER_IFLG_EARLY_EVENT) {
                if (tu->tread) {
                        struct snd_timer_tread tread;
+                       memset(&tread, 0, sizeof(tread));
                        tread.event = SNDRV_TIMER_EVENT_EARLY;
                        tread.tstamp.tv_sec = 0;
                        tread.tstamp.tv_nsec = 0;