On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 09:17:49PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2015-08-14 18:55 +0200, Greg KH wrote: > > > On Thu, Jul 02, 2015 at 10:19:34AM +0200, Dick Snippe wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> I'm sorry to bother you with this, but lwn.net reported a rather serious > >> security issue a couple of weeks ago: > >> > >> http://lwn.net/Articles/646590/ > >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1202855 > >> CVE-2015-1805 > >> "It was found that the Linux kernel's implementation of vectored pipe > >> read and write functionality did not take into account the I/O vectors > >> that were already processed when retrying after a failed atomic access > >> operation, potentially resulting in memory corruption due to an I/O > >> vector array overrun. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to > >> crash the system or, potentially, escalate their privileges on the > >> system." > >> > >> It appears that these upstream fixes haven't made it to 3.14.4[456]: > >> > >> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f0d1bec9d58d4c038d0ac958c9af82be6eb18045 > >> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=637b58c2887e5e57850865839cc75f59184b23d1 > >> > >> I'm just a (very happy!) user of the -longterm kernels, so I don't > >> know how this normally works. But it would appear that this bug still > >> exists in the -longterm kernels. > > > > I think, and I might be wrong here, but because > > 637b58c2887e5e57850865839cc75f59184b23d1 (switch pipe_read() to > > copy_page_to_iter()) is not in the 3.14-stable tree (it showed up in > > 3.15), that f0d1bec9d58d4c038d0ac958c9af82be6eb18045 (new helper: > > copy_page_from_iter()) isn't needed (it showed up in 3.16). > > > > So is this a problem in the 3.14-stable tree? > > It seems to have been fixed by 6b17faf3d5fa6a727c40613bdf24d73b2a59df27 > (pipe: iovec: Fix memory corruption when retrying atomic copy as > non-atomic) in 3.14.46. That fix is also in 3.10.82. Hey, even better, we fixed it and forgot all about it :) greg k-h -- 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