From: Ryan Ware <ware@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> This patch has been added to the 3.12 stable tree. If you have any objections, please let us know. =============== commit 613317bd212c585c20796c10afe5daaa95d4b0a1 upstream. This patch fixes vulnerability CVE-2016-2085. The problem exists because the vm_verify_hmac() function includes a use of memcmp(). Unfortunately, this allows timing side channel attacks; specifically a MAC forgery complexity drop from 2^128 to 2^12. This patch changes the memcmp() to the cryptographically safe crypto_memneq(). Reported-by: Xiaofei Rex Guo <xiaofei.rex.guo@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Ryan Ware <ware@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> --- security/integrity/evm/evm_main.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/security/integrity/evm/evm_main.c b/security/integrity/evm/evm_main.c index d43b62c4a8e5..5bf01c8648a8 100644 --- a/security/integrity/evm/evm_main.c +++ b/security/integrity/evm/evm_main.c @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ #include <linux/integrity.h> #include <linux/evm.h> #include <crypto/hash.h> +#include <crypto/algapi.h> #include "evm.h" int evm_initialized; @@ -132,7 +133,7 @@ static enum integrity_status evm_verify_hmac(struct dentry *dentry, xattr_value_len, calc.digest); if (rc) break; - rc = memcmp(xattr_data->digest, calc.digest, + rc = crypto_memneq(xattr_data->digest, calc.digest, sizeof(calc.digest)); if (rc) rc = -EINVAL; -- 2.8.1 -- 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