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sys_semctl: fix kernel stack leakage
authorDan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>
Thu, 30 Sep 2010 22:15:31 +0000 (15:15 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Thu, 9 Dec 2010 21:24:17 +0000 (13:24 -0800)
commitff63490293484aa5f62268fc46e34645c07c483a
tree5f61832e8656e8db29f52125582606ba3fc91f46
parent77f5c399311bd4a6d8836dbd788dd0e45a582d15
sys_semctl: fix kernel stack leakage

commit 982f7c2b2e6a28f8f266e075d92e19c0dd4c6e56 upstream.

The semctl syscall has several code paths that lead to the leakage of
uninitialized kernel stack memory (namely the IPC_INFO, SEM_INFO,
IPC_STAT, and SEM_STAT commands) during the use of the older, obsolete
version of the semid_ds struct.

The copy_semid_to_user() function declares a semid_ds struct on the stack
and copies it back to the user without initializing or zeroing the
"sem_base", "sem_pending", "sem_pending_last", and "undo" pointers,
allowing the leakage of 16 bytes of kernel stack memory.

The code is still reachable on 32-bit systems - when calling semctl()
newer glibc's automatically OR the IPC command with the IPC_64 flag, but
invoking the syscall directly allows users to use the older versions of
the struct.

Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <dan.j.rosenberg@gmail.com>
Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
ipc/sem.c