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Subject[patch 1/1] personality handling: fix PER_CLEAR_ON_SETID for security reasons
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Hello,

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> and Tavis Ormandy
<taviso@sdf.lonestar.org>

---


diff -r f70f443c9ead include/linux/personality.h
--- a/include/linux/personality.h Fri Jun 26 19:59:33 2009 +0200
+++ b/include/linux/personality.h Fri Jun 26 20:00:40 2009 +0200
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ 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.

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