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authorTavis Ormandy <taviso@cmpxchg8b.com>2010-12-09 15:29:42 +0100
committerAK <andi@firstfloor.org>2011-02-06 11:03:45 -0800
commit0409b72407a69538cb62bb0bc2476db0ca2b3de8 (patch)
tree6be12007e452689c19d8af90e1f79adc526b0e81 /mm/swap.c
parent23d8a757d065542d5e9557cc20912833085b2395 (diff)
install_special_mapping skips security_file_mmap check.
commit 462e635e5b73ba9a4c03913b77138cd57ce4b050 upstream. The install_special_mapping routine (used, for example, to setup the vdso) skips the security check before insert_vm_struct, allowing a local attacker to bypass the mmap_min_addr security restriction by limiting the available pages for special mappings. bprm_mm_init() also skips the check, and although I don't think this can be used to bypass any restrictions, I don't see any reason not to have the security check. $ uname -m x86_64 $ cat /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr 65536 $ cat install_special_mapping.s section .bss resb BSS_SIZE section .text global _start _start: mov eax, __NR_pause int 0x80 $ nasm -D__NR_pause=29 -DBSS_SIZE=0xfffed000 -f elf -o install_special_mapping.o install_special_mapping.s $ ld -m elf_i386 -Ttext=0x10000 -Tbss=0x11000 -o install_special_mapping install_special_mapping.o $ ./install_special_mapping & [1] 14303 $ cat /proc/14303/maps 0000f000-00010000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0 [vdso] 00010000-00011000 r-xp 00001000 00:19 2453665 /home/taviso/install_special_mapping 00011000-ffffe000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0 [stack] It's worth noting that Red Hat are shipping with mmap_min_addr set to 4096. Signed-off-by: Tavis Ormandy <taviso@google.com> Acked-by: Kees Cook <kees@ubuntu.com> Acked-by: Robert Swiecki <swiecki@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> [ Changed to not drop the error code - akpm ] Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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