From: Djalal Harouni Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 21:42:26 +0000 (-0700) Subject: proc: environ_read() make sure offset points to environment address range X-Git-Tag: v3.6-rc1~41^2~25 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e8905ec27e2f4ea1b9f7e03df68a060b3ae6fca8;p=pandora-kernel.git proc: environ_read() make sure offset points to environment address range Currently the following offset and environment address range check in environ_read() of /proc//environ is buggy: int this_len = mm->env_end - (mm->env_start + src); if (this_len <= 0) break; Large or negative offsets on /proc//environ converted to 'unsigned long' may pass this check since '(mm->env_start + src)' can overflow and 'this_len' will be positive. This can turn /proc//environ to act like /proc//mem since (mm->env_start + src) will point and read from another VMA. There are two fixes here plus some code cleaning: 1) Fix the overflow by checking if the offset that was converted to unsigned long will always point to the [mm->env_start, mm->env_end] address range. 2) Remove the truncation that was made to the result of the check, storing the result in 'int this_len' will alter its value and we can not depend on it. For kernels that have commit b409e578d ("proc: clean up /proc//environ handling") which adds the appropriate ptrace check and saves the 'mm' at ->open() time, this is not a security issue. This patch is taken from the grsecurity patch since it was just made available. Signed-off-by: Djalal Harouni Cc: Oleg Nesterov Cc: Brad Spengler Acked-by: Kees Cook Cc: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Reading git-diff-tree failed