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authorAmanieu d'Antras <amanieu@gmail.com>2015-08-06 15:46:26 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-08-07 04:39:40 +0300
commit3c00cb5e68dc719f2fc73a33b1b230aadfcb1309 (patch)
tree68b5f2424fb18c45aa9b67a694a75160dddbbf23 /kernel/signal.c
parent209f7512d007980fd111a74a064d70a3656079cf (diff)
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signal: fix information leak in copy_siginfo_from_user32
This function can leak kernel stack data when the user siginfo_t has a positive si_code value. The top 16 bits of si_code descibe which fields in the siginfo_t union are active, but they are treated inconsistently between copy_siginfo_from_user32, copy_siginfo_to_user32 and copy_siginfo_to_user. copy_siginfo_from_user32 is called from rt_sigqueueinfo and rt_tgsigqueueinfo in which the user has full control overthe top 16 bits of si_code. This fixes the following information leaks: x86: 8 bytes leaked when sending a signal from a 32-bit process to itself. This leak grows to 16 bytes if the process uses x32. (si_code = __SI_CHLD) x86: 100 bytes leaked when sending a signal from a 32-bit process to a 64-bit process. (si_code = -1) sparc: 4 bytes leaked when sending a signal from a 32-bit process to a 64-bit process. (si_code = any) parsic and s390 have similar bugs, but they are not vulnerable because rt_[tg]sigqueueinfo have checks that prevent sending a positive si_code to a different process. These bugs are also fixed for consistency. Signed-off-by: Amanieu d'Antras <amanieu@gmail.com> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@ezchip.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/signal.c')
-rw-r--r--kernel/signal.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index 836df8dac6cc..00524cf6c412 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -3017,7 +3017,7 @@ COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE3(rt_sigqueueinfo,
int, sig,
struct compat_siginfo __user *, uinfo)
{
- siginfo_t info;
+ siginfo_t info = {};
int ret = copy_siginfo_from_user32(&info, uinfo);
if (unlikely(ret))
return ret;
@@ -3061,7 +3061,7 @@ COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE4(rt_tgsigqueueinfo,
int, sig,
struct compat_siginfo __user *, uinfo)
{
- siginfo_t info;
+ siginfo_t info = {};
if (copy_siginfo_from_user32(&info, uinfo))
return -EFAULT;