This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
signal: always clear sa_restorer on execve
to the 3.8-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:
signal-always-clear-sa_restorer-on-execve.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.8 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 2ca39528c01a933f6689cd6505ce65bd6d68a530 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2013 14:59:33 -0700
Subject: signal: always clear sa_restorer on execve
From: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit 2ca39528c01a933f6689cd6505ce65bd6d68a530 upstream.
When the new signal handlers are set up, the location of sa_restorer is
not cleared, leaking a parent process's address space location to
children. This allows for a potential bypass of the parent's ASLR by
examining the sa_restorer value returned when calling sigaction().
Based on what should be considered "secret" about addresses, it only
matters across the exec not the fork (since the VMAs haven't changed
until the exec). But since exec sets SIG_DFL and keeps sa_restorer,
this is where it should be fixed.
Given the few uses of sa_restorer, a "set" function was not written
since this would be the only use. Instead, we use
__ARCH_HAS_SA_RESTORER, as already done in other places.
Example of the leak before applying this patch:
$ cat /proc/$$/maps
...
7fb9f3083000-7fb9f3238000 r-xp 00000000 fd:01 404469 .../libc-2.15.so
...
$ ./leak
...
7f278bc74000-7f278be29000 r-xp 00000000 fd:01 404469 .../libc-2.15.so
...
1 0 (nil) 0x7fb9f30b94a0
2 4000000 (nil) 0x7f278bcaa4a0
3 4000000 (nil) 0x7f278bcaa4a0
4 0 (nil) 0x7fb9f30b94a0
...
[akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: use SA_RESTORER for backportability]
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Emese Revfy <re.emese@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Emese Revfy <re.emese@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: PaX Team <pageexec@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Julien Tinnes <jln@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/signal.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -485,6 +485,9 @@ flush_signal_handlers(struct task_struct
if (force_default || ka->sa.sa_handler != SIG_IGN)
ka->sa.sa_handler = SIG_DFL;
ka->sa.sa_flags = 0;
+#ifdef SA_RESTORER
+ ka->sa.sa_restorer = NULL;
+#endif
sigemptyset(&ka->sa.sa_mask);
ka++;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.8/signal-always-clear-sa_restorer-on-execve.patch
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