This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
kernel/signal.c: stop info leak via the tkill and the tgkill syscalls
to the 3.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
kernel-signal.c-stop-info-leak-via-the-tkill-and-the-tgkill-syscalls.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From b9e146d8eb3b9ecae5086d373b50fa0c1f3e7f0f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Emese Revfy <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:58:36 -0700
Subject: kernel/signal.c: stop info leak via the tkill and the tgkill syscalls
From: Emese Revfy <[email protected]>
commit b9e146d8eb3b9ecae5086d373b50fa0c1f3e7f0f upstream.
This fixes a kernel memory contents leak via the tkill and tgkill syscalls
for compat processes.
This is visible in the siginfo_t->_sifields._rt.si_sigval.sival_ptr field
when handling signals delivered from tkill.
The place of the infoleak:
int copy_siginfo_to_user32(compat_siginfo_t __user *to, siginfo_t *from)
{
...
put_user_ex(ptr_to_compat(from->si_ptr), &to->si_ptr);
...
}
Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: PaX Team <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <[email protected]>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <[email protected]>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
kernel/signal.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -2867,7 +2867,7 @@ do_send_specific(pid_t tgid, pid_t pid,
static int do_tkill(pid_t tgid, pid_t pid, int sig)
{
- struct siginfo info;
+ struct siginfo info = {};
info.si_signo = sig;
info.si_errno = 0;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-3.4/kernel-signal.c-stop-info-leak-via-the-tkill-and-the-tgkill-syscalls.patch
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