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SubjectRe: [v2.6.34-stable 050/165] TPM: Zero buffer after copying to userspace
On 12-08-17 11:48 AM, Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 03:46:34PM -0400, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
>> From: Peter Huewe <huewe.external.infineon@googlemail.com>
>>
>> -------------------
>> This is a commit scheduled for the next v2.6.34 longterm release.
>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/paulg/longterm-queue-2.6.34.git
>> If you see a problem with using this for longterm, please comment.
>> -------------------
>>
>> commit 3321c07ae5068568cd61ac9f4ba749006a7185c9 upstream.
>>
>> Since the buffer might contain security related data it might be a good idea to
>> zero the buffer after we have copied it to userspace.
>>
>> This got assigned CVE-2011-1162.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Rajiv Andrade <srajiv@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>> Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
>> Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
> [...]
>
> commit 3ab1aff89477dafb1aaeafe8c8669114a02b7226 ("TPM: Zero buffer whole
> after copying to userspace") is something to consider to be applied
> after this, either with this update or later 2.6.34 update. It
> complements this change, just fyi.

Agreed. I see no reason to not queue this.

Thanks,
Paul.
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