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SubjectRe: [Security] Fwd: Oops (bad memory deref) in slab_alloc() due to filp_cachep holding incorrect values
Quoting Robert Święcki (robert@swiecki.net):
> On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 10:28 AM, Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.sg> wrote:
> > Cc'ed David as well.
> >
> > On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 8:52 PM, Robert Święcki <robert@swiecki.net> wrote:
> >> And the repro - I think this might be exploitable (user-space NULL ptr
> >> deref at the first glance, in cap_capable() while in sys_setgid()).
> >> Works for me with 2.6.39 and the following config:
> >> http://alt.swiecki.net/linux_kernel/ise-test-2.6.39-kernel-config.txt
> >>
> >> It works for me with apparmor loaded, but looking at the code it
> >> should work with SELinux as well (both call cap_capable()). Could be
> >> some regression of http://securitytracker.com/id?1024384
> >>
> >> It works with 2.6.39 but not with 2.6.39-rc4. Found with Tavis
> >> Ormandy's http://code.google.com/p/iknowthis/
>
> Given that it doesn't seem to appear in 2.6.39-rc4, and judging by the
> names of functions involved, this change looks suspiciously related to
> this oops (even if it just made the keyctl problem visible)
> http://git.itanic.dy.fi/?p=linux-stable;a=commitdiff;h=47a150edc2ae734c0f4bf50aa19499e23b9a46f8
>
> >> #include <sys/stat.h>
> >> #include <sys/wait.h>
> >> #include <unistd.h>
> >> #include <sys/syscall.h>
> >> #include <linux/keyctl.h>
> >> #include <linux/sched.h>
> >>
> >> int TH1(void *dummy) {
> >>        syscall(__NR_keyctl, KEYCTL_SESSION_TO_PARENT);

Thanks!

Fooi, it looks like all users of cred_alloc_blank() may need to be
audited wrt commit 47a150edc2ae734c0f4bf50aa19499e23b9a46f8.

Does this fix the bug you're seeing?

From: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 15:41:23 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] Set cred->user_ns in key_replace_session_keyring

Since this cred was not created with copy_creds(), it needs to get
initialized.

Signed-off-by: Serge E. Hallyn <serge.hallyn@canonical.com>
---
security/keys/process_keys.c | 1 +
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/security/keys/process_keys.c b/security/keys/process_keys.c
index 6c0480d..92a3a5d 100644
--- a/security/keys/process_keys.c
+++ b/security/keys/process_keys.c
@@ -847,6 +847,7 @@ void key_replace_session_keyring(void)
new-> sgid = old-> sgid;
new->fsgid = old->fsgid;
new->user = get_uid(old->user);
+ new->user_ns = new->user->user_ns;
new->group_info = get_group_info(old->group_info);

new->securebits = old->securebits;
--
1.7.0.4
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