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authorAmanieu d'Antras <amanieu@gmail.com>2015-08-06 15:46:26 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2015-08-16 20:51:42 -0700
commita6bb935312e2c20c95af0789ec84af4a6bcd5596 (patch)
tree24e87c09c865134809d853e6d52e54627482282e /kernel
parent16a49557bc101b804a0a74d4032556f8836b9469 (diff)
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signal: fix information leak in copy_siginfo_from_user32
commit 3c00cb5e68dc719f2fc73a33b1b230aadfcb1309 upstream. 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> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/signal.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index fa80d104cbec..2e51bcbea1e3 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -3036,7 +3036,7 @@ 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;
@@ -3082,7 +3082,7 @@ 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;