On Thu, 30 Nov 2017, Paul Moore wrote:

> From: Paul Moore <[email protected]>
> 
> The syzbot/syzkaller automated tests found a problem in
> security_context_to_sid_core() during early boot (before we load the
> SELinux policy) where we could potentially feed context strings without
> NULL terminators into the strcmp() function.
> 
> We already guard against this during normal operation (after the SELinux
> policy has been loaded) by making a copy of the context strings and
> explicitly adding a NULL terminator to the end.  The patch extends this
> protection to the early boot case (no loaded policy) by moving the context
> copy earlier in security_context_to_sid_core().
> 
> Reported-by: syzbot <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <[email protected]>


Reviewed-by: James Morris <[email protected]>


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