svn commit: r254354 - stable/8/sys/netinet

Michael Tuexen tuexen at FreeBSD.org
Thu Aug 15 04:35:26 UTC 2013


Author: tuexen
Date: Thu Aug 15 04:35:25 2013
New Revision: 254354
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/254354

Log:
  MFC r254338:
  
  Don't send uninitialized memory (two instances of 4 bytes) in
  every cookie on the wire. This bug was reported in
  https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=905080

Modified:
  stable/8/sys/netinet/sctp_output.c
Directory Properties:
  stable/8/sys/   (props changed)
  stable/8/sys/netinet/   (props changed)

Modified: stable/8/sys/netinet/sctp_output.c
==============================================================================
--- stable/8/sys/netinet/sctp_output.c	Thu Aug 15 04:27:10 2013	(r254353)
+++ stable/8/sys/netinet/sctp_output.c	Thu Aug 15 04:35:25 2013	(r254354)
@@ -5415,6 +5415,14 @@ do_a_abort:
 	}
 	SCTP_BUF_LEN(m) = sizeof(struct sctp_init_chunk);
 
+	/*
+	 * We might not overwrite the identification[] completely and on
+	 * some platforms time_entered will contain some padding. Therefore
+	 * zero out the cookie to avoid putting uninitialized memory on the
+	 * wire.
+	 */
+	memset(&stc, 0, sizeof(struct sctp_state_cookie));
+
 	/* the time I built cookie */
 	(void)SCTP_GETTIME_TIMEVAL(&stc.time_entered);
 


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