Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752785AbdGPONt (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Jul 2017 10:13:49 -0400 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:44258 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751828AbdGPONo (ORCPT ); Sun, 16 Jul 2017 10:13:44 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org, "David Howells" Date: Sun, 16 Jul 2017 14:56:46 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: LinuxStableQueue (scripts by bwh) Subject: [PATCH 3.16 156/178] KEYS: Change the name of the dead type to ".dead" to prevent user access In-Reply-To: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2a02:8011:400e:2:6f00:88c8:c921:d332 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1316 Lines: 44 3.16.46-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: David Howells commit c1644fe041ebaf6519f6809146a77c3ead9193af upstream. This fixes CVE-2017-6951. Userspace should not be able to do things with the "dead" key type as it doesn't have some of the helper functions set upon it that the kernel needs. Attempting to use it may cause the kernel to crash. Fix this by changing the name of the type to ".dead" so that it's rejected up front on userspace syscalls by key_get_type_from_user(). Though this doesn't seem to affect recent kernels, it does affect older ones, certainly those prior to: commit c06cfb08b88dfbe13be44a69ae2fdc3a7c902d81 Author: David Howells Date: Tue Sep 16 17:36:06 2014 +0100 KEYS: Remove key_type::match in favour of overriding default by match_preparse which went in before 3.18-rc1. Signed-off-by: David Howells Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- security/keys/gc.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/security/keys/gc.c +++ b/security/keys/gc.c @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ static unsigned long key_gc_flags; * immediately unlinked. */ struct key_type key_type_dead = { - .name = "dead", + .name = ".dead", }; /*