3.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: PaX Team <pageexec@xxxxxxxxxxx> commit 2def2ef2ae5f3990aabdbe8a755911902707d268 upstream. The x32 case for the recvmsg() timout handling is broken: asmlinkage long compat_sys_recvmmsg(int fd, struct compat_mmsghdr __user *mmsg, unsigned int vlen, unsigned int flags, struct compat_timespec __user *timeout) { int datagrams; struct timespec ktspec; if (flags & MSG_CMSG_COMPAT) return -EINVAL; if (COMPAT_USE_64BIT_TIME) return __sys_recvmmsg(fd, (struct mmsghdr __user *)mmsg, vlen, flags | MSG_CMSG_COMPAT, (struct timespec *) timeout); ... The timeout pointer parameter is provided by userland (hence the __user annotation) but for x32 syscalls it's simply cast to a kernel pointer and is passed to __sys_recvmmsg which will eventually directly dereference it for both reading and writing. Other callers to __sys_recvmmsg properly copy from userland to the kernel first. The bug was introduced by commit ee4fa23c4bfc ("compat: Use COMPAT_USE_64BIT_TIME in net/compat.c") and should affect all kernels since 3.4 (and perhaps vendor kernels if they backported x32 support along with this code). Note that CONFIG_X86_X32_ABI gets enabled at build time and only if CONFIG_X86_X32 is enabled and ld can build x32 executables. Other uses of COMPAT_USE_64BIT_TIME seem fine. This addresses CVE-2014-0038. Signed-off-by: PaX Team <pageexec@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/compat.c | 9 ++------- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) --- a/net/compat.c +++ b/net/compat.c @@ -789,21 +789,16 @@ asmlinkage long compat_sys_recvmmsg(int if (flags & MSG_CMSG_COMPAT) return -EINVAL; - if (COMPAT_USE_64BIT_TIME) - return __sys_recvmmsg(fd, (struct mmsghdr __user *)mmsg, vlen, - flags | MSG_CMSG_COMPAT, - (struct timespec *) timeout); - if (timeout == NULL) return __sys_recvmmsg(fd, (struct mmsghdr __user *)mmsg, vlen, flags | MSG_CMSG_COMPAT, NULL); - if (get_compat_timespec(&ktspec, timeout)) + if (compat_get_timespec(&ktspec, timeout)) return -EFAULT; datagrams = __sys_recvmmsg(fd, (struct mmsghdr __user *)mmsg, vlen, flags | MSG_CMSG_COMPAT, &ktspec); - if (datagrams > 0 && put_compat_timespec(&ktspec, timeout)) + if (datagrams > 0 && compat_put_timespec(&ktspec, timeout)) datagrams = -EFAULT; return datagrams; -- 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