Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933385AbaKLBeP (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Nov 2014 20:34:15 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:59591 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754778AbaKLBeI (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Nov 2014 20:34:08 -0500 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Mathias Krause , Oleg Nesterov , Brad Spengler , PaX Team , Thomas Gleixner Subject: [PATCH 3.17 274/319] posix-timers: Fix stack info leak in timer_create() Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 10:16:52 +0900 Message-Id: <20141112011038.140012187@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.1.3 In-Reply-To: <20141112010952.553519040@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20141112010952.553519040@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.63-1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.17-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Mathias Krause commit 6891c4509c792209c44ced55a60f13954cb50ef4 upstream. If userland creates a timer without specifying a sigevent info, we'll create one ourself, using a stack local variable. Particularly will we use the timer ID as sival_int. But as sigev_value is a union containing a pointer and an int, that assignment will only partially initialize sigev_value on systems where the size of a pointer is bigger than the size of an int. On such systems we'll copy the uninitialized stack bytes from the timer_create() call to userland when the timer actually fires and we're going to deliver the signal. Initialize sigev_value with 0 to plug the stack info leak. Found in the PaX patch, written by the PaX Team. Fixes: 5a9fa7307285 ("posix-timers: kill ->it_sigev_signo and...") Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Brad Spengler Cc: PaX Team Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1412456799-32339-1-git-send-email-minipli@googlemail.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- kernel/time/posix-timers.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/kernel/time/posix-timers.c +++ b/kernel/time/posix-timers.c @@ -636,6 +636,7 @@ SYSCALL_DEFINE3(timer_create, const cloc goto out; } } else { + memset(&event.sigev_value, 0, sizeof(event.sigev_value)); event.sigev_notify = SIGEV_SIGNAL; event.sigev_signo = SIGALRM; event.sigev_value.sival_int = new_timer->it_id; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/