personality: fix PER_CLEAR_ON_SETID (CVE-2009-1895)
authorJulien Tinnes <jt@cr0.org>
Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:27:40 +0000 (20:27 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Mon, 20 Jul 2009 03:44:59 +0000 (20:44 -0700)
commit f9fabcb58a6d26d6efde842d1703ac7cfa9427b6 upstream.

We have found that the current PER_CLEAR_ON_SETID mask on Linux doesn't
include neither ADDR_COMPAT_LAYOUT, nor MMAP_PAGE_ZERO.

The current mask is READ_IMPLIES_EXEC|ADDR_NO_RANDOMIZE.

We believe it is important to add MMAP_PAGE_ZERO, because by using this
personality it is possible to have the first page mapped inside a
process running as setuid root.  This could be used in those scenarios:

 - Exploiting a NULL pointer dereference issue in a setuid root binary
 - Bypassing the mmap_min_addr restrictions of the Linux kernel: by
   running a setuid binary that would drop privileges before giving us
   control back (for instance by loading a user-supplied library), we
   could get the first page mapped in a process we control.  By further
   using mremap and mprotect on this mapping, we can then completely
   bypass the mmap_min_addr restrictions.

Less importantly, we believe ADDR_COMPAT_LAYOUT should also be added
since on x86 32bits it will in practice disable most of the address
space layout randomization (only the stack will remain randomized).

Signed-off-by: Julien Tinnes <jt@cr0.org>
Signed-off-by: Tavis Ormandy <taviso@sdf.lonestar.org>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <kees@ubuntu.com>
Acked-by: Eugene Teo <eugene@redhat.com>
[ Shortened lines and fixed whitespace as per Christophs' suggestion ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
include/linux/personality.h

index a84e9ff..1261208 100644 (file)
@@ -40,7 +40,10 @@ enum {
  * Security-relevant compatibility flags that must be
  * cleared upon setuid or setgid exec:
  */
-#define PER_CLEAR_ON_SETID (READ_IMPLIES_EXEC|ADDR_NO_RANDOMIZE)
+#define PER_CLEAR_ON_SETID (READ_IMPLIES_EXEC  | \
+                           ADDR_NO_RANDOMIZE  | \
+                           ADDR_COMPAT_LAYOUT | \
+                           MMAP_PAGE_ZERO)
 
 /*
  * Personality types.