This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
kernel/signal.c: stop info leak via the tkill and the tgkill syscalls
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:
kernel-signal.c-stop-info-leak-via-the-tkill-and-the-tgkill-syscalls.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 b9e146d8eb3b9ecae5086d373b50fa0c1f3e7f0f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Emese Revfy <re.emese@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:58:36 -0700
Subject: kernel/signal.c: stop info leak via the tkill and the tgkill syscalls
From: Emese Revfy <re.emese@xxxxxxxxx>
commit b9e146d8eb3b9ecae5086d373b50fa0c1f3e7f0f upstream.
This fixes a kernel memory contents leak via the tkill and tgkill syscalls
for compat processes.
This is visible in the siginfo_t->_sifields._rt.si_sigval.sival_ptr field
when handling signals delivered from tkill.
The place of the infoleak:
int copy_siginfo_to_user32(compat_siginfo_t __user *to, siginfo_t *from)
{
...
put_user_ex(ptr_to_compat(from->si_ptr), &to->si_ptr);
...
}
Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy <re.emese@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: PaX Team <pageexec@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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 | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -2880,7 +2880,7 @@ do_send_specific(pid_t tgid, pid_t pid,
static int do_tkill(pid_t tgid, pid_t pid, int sig)
{
- struct siginfo info;
+ struct siginfo info = {};
info.si_signo = sig;
info.si_errno = 0;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from re.emese@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.8/kernel-signal.c-stop-info-leak-via-the-tkill-and-the-tgkill-syscalls.patch
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