3.8-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ 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++; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html