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    net: sctp: fix memory leak in auth key management · 4184b2a7
    Daniel Borkmann authored
    A very minimal and simple user space application allocating an SCTP
    socket, setting SCTP_AUTH_KEY setsockopt(2) on it and then closing
    the socket again will leak the memory containing the authentication
    key from user space:
    
    unreferenced object 0xffff8800837047c0 (size 16):
      comm "a.out", pid 2789, jiffies 4296954322 (age 192.258s)
      hex dump (first 16 bytes):
        01 00 00 00 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
      backtrace:
        [<ffffffff816d7e8e>] kmemleak_alloc+0x4e/0xb0
        [<ffffffff811c88d8>] __kmalloc+0xe8/0x270
        [<ffffffffa0870c23>] sctp_auth_create_key+0x23/0x50 [sctp]
        [<ffffffffa08718b1>] sctp_auth_set_key+0xa1/0x140 [sctp]
        [<ffffffffa086b383>] sctp_setsockopt+0xd03/0x1180 [sctp]
        [<ffffffff815bfd94>] sock_common_setsockopt+0x14/0x20
        [<ffffffff815beb61>] SyS_setsockopt+0x71/0xd0
        [<ffffffff816e58a9>] system_call_fastpath+0x12/0x17
        [<ffffffffffffffff>] 0xffffffffffffffff
    
    This is bad because of two things, we can bring down a machine from
    user space when auth_enable=1, but also we would leave security sensitive
    keying material in memory without clearing it after use. The issue is
    that sctp_auth_create_key() already sets the refcount to 1, but after
    allocation sctp_auth_set_key() does an additional refcount on it, and
    thus leaving it around when we free the socket.
    
    Fixes: 65b07e5d
    
     ("[SCTP]: API updates to suport SCTP-AUTH extensions.")
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
    Cc: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevich@gmail.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarNeil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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