Re: [PATCH v2] net: tipc: fix possible infoleak in tipc_mon_rcv()

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Wed Jun 29 2022 - 23:31:28 EST


On Tue, 28 Jun 2022 16:31:22 +0800 Hangyu Hua wrote:
> dom_bef is use to cache current domain record only if current domain
> exists. But when current domain does not exist, dom_bef will still be used
> in mon_identify_lost_members. This may lead to an information leak.

AFAICT applied_bef must be zero if peer->domain was 0, so I don't think
mon_identify_lost_members() will do anything.

> Fix this by adding a memset before using dom_bef.
>
> Fixes: 35c55c9877f8 ("tipc: add neighbor monitoring framework")
> Signed-off-by: Hangyu Hua <hbh25y@xxxxxxxxx>