Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756903Ab2J1Xko (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Oct 2012 19:40:44 -0400 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:42017 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756755Ab2J1X1q (ORCPT ); Sun, 28 Oct 2012 19:27:46 -0400 Message-Id: <20121028231556.720251581@decadent.org.uk> User-Agent: quilt/0.60-1 Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2012 23:16:40 +0000 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, Kees Cook , PaX Team , Andi Kleen , Brad Spengler , Linus Torvalds Subject: [ 064/105] kernel/sys.c: fix stack memory content leak via UNAME26 In-Reply-To: <20121028231536.970033833@decadent.org.uk> X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2001:470:1f08:1539:21c:bfff:fe03:f805 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: 2306 Lines: 70 3.2-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Kees Cook commit 2702b1526c7278c4d65d78de209a465d4de2885e upstream. Calling uname() with the UNAME26 personality set allows a leak of kernel stack contents. This fixes it by defensively calculating the length of copy_to_user() call, making the len argument unsigned, and initializing the stack buffer to zero (now technically unneeded, but hey, overkill). CVE-2012-0957 Reported-by: PaX Team Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Cc: Andi Kleen Cc: PaX Team Cc: Brad Spengler Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- kernel/sys.c | 12 +++++++----- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c index c5cb5b9..01865c6 100644 --- a/kernel/sys.c +++ b/kernel/sys.c @@ -1265,15 +1265,16 @@ DECLARE_RWSEM(uts_sem); * Work around broken programs that cannot handle "Linux 3.0". * Instead we map 3.x to 2.6.40+x, so e.g. 3.0 would be 2.6.40 */ -static int override_release(char __user *release, int len) +static int override_release(char __user *release, size_t len) { int ret = 0; - char buf[65]; if (current->personality & UNAME26) { - char *rest = UTS_RELEASE; + const char *rest = UTS_RELEASE; + char buf[65] = { 0 }; int ndots = 0; unsigned v; + size_t copy; while (*rest) { if (*rest == '.' && ++ndots >= 3) @@ -1283,8 +1284,9 @@ static int override_release(char __user *release, int len) rest++; } v = ((LINUX_VERSION_CODE >> 8) & 0xff) + 40; - snprintf(buf, len, "2.6.%u%s", v, rest); - ret = copy_to_user(release, buf, len); + copy = min(sizeof(buf), max_t(size_t, 1, len)); + copy = scnprintf(buf, copy, "2.6.%u%s", v, rest); + ret = copy_to_user(release, buf, copy + 1); } return ret; } -- 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/