Tools: hv: verify origin of netlink connector message

The SuSE security team suggested to use recvfrom instead of recv to be
certain that the connector message is originated from kernel.

CVE-2012-2669

Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Signed-off-by: Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Krahmer <krahmer@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c b/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c
index 146fd6147e84..d9834b362943 100644
--- a/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c
+++ b/tools/hv/hv_kvp_daemon.c
@@ -701,14 +701,18 @@ int main(void)
         pfd.fd = fd;
 
         while (1) {
+                struct sockaddr *addr_p = (struct sockaddr *) &addr;
+                socklen_t addr_l = sizeof(addr);
                 pfd.events = POLLIN;
                 pfd.revents = 0;
                 poll(&pfd, 1, -1);
 
-                len = recv(fd, kvp_recv_buffer, sizeof(kvp_recv_buffer), 0);
+                len = recvfrom(fd, kvp_recv_buffer, sizeof(kvp_recv_buffer), 0,
+                                addr_p, &addr_l);
 
-                if (len < 0) {
-                        syslog(LOG_ERR, "recv failed; error:%d", len);
+                if (len < 0 || addr.nl_pid) {
+                        syslog(LOG_ERR, "recvfrom failed; pid:%u error:%d %s",
+                                        addr.nl_pid, errno, strerror(errno));
                         close(fd);
                         return -1;
                 }