[CVE-2010-4346 Hardy] install_special_mapping skips security_file_mmap check. CVE-2010-4346

Steve Conklin sconklin at canonical.com
Wed Mar 9 14:24:48 UTC 2011


From: Tavis Ormandy <taviso at cmpxchg8b.com>

BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/731971

CVE-2010-4346

The install_special_mapping routine (used, for example, to setup the
vdso) skips the security check before insert_vm_struct, allowing a local
attacker to bypass the mmap_min_addr security restriction by limiting
the available pages for special mappings.

bprm_mm_init() also skips the check, and although I don't think this can
be used to bypass any restrictions, I don't see any reason not to have
the security check.

  $ uname -m
  x86_64
  $ cat /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr
  65536
  $ cat install_special_mapping.s
  section .bss
      resb BSS_SIZE
  section .text
      global _start
      _start:
          mov     eax, __NR_pause
          int     0x80
  $ nasm -D__NR_pause=29 -DBSS_SIZE=0xfffed000 -f elf -o install_special_mapping.o install_special_mapping.s
  $ ld -m elf_i386 -Ttext=0x10000 -Tbss=0x11000 -o install_special_mapping install_special_mapping.o
  $ ./install_special_mapping &
  [1] 14303
  $ cat /proc/14303/maps
  0000f000-00010000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0                                  [vdso]
  00010000-00011000 r-xp 00001000 00:19 2453665                            /home/taviso/install_special_mapping
  00011000-ffffe000 rwxp 00000000 00:00 0                                  [stack]

It's worth noting that Red Hat are shipping with mmap_min_addr set to
4096.

Signed-off-by: Tavis Ormandy <taviso at google.com>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <kees at ubuntu.com>
Acked-by: Robert Swiecki <swiecki at google.com>
[ Changed to not drop the error code - akpm ]
Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris at namei.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
backported from upstream commit 462e635e5b73ba9a4c03913b77138cd57ce4b050
Signed-off-by: Steve Conklin <sconklin at canonical.com>
---
 fs/exec.c |    7 +++++++
 mm/mmap.c |   16 ++++++++++++----
 2 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index 1340386..9338b4f 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -235,6 +235,13 @@ static int __bprm_mm_init(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
 
 	vma->vm_flags = VM_STACK_FLAGS;
 	vma->vm_page_prot = vm_get_page_prot(vma->vm_flags);
+
+	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&vma->anon_vma_chain);
+
+	err = security_file_mmap(NULL, 0, 0, 0, vma->vm_start, 1);
+	if (err)
+		goto err;
+
 	err = insert_vm_struct(mm, vma);
 	if (err) {
 		up_write(&mm->mmap_sem);
diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index 6f9b289..974ecc0 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -2210,6 +2210,7 @@ int install_special_mapping(struct mm_struct *mm,
 			    unsigned long addr, unsigned long len,
 			    unsigned long vm_flags, struct page **pages)
 {
+	int ret;
 	struct vm_area_struct *vma;
 
 	vma = kmem_cache_zalloc(vm_area_cachep, GFP_KERNEL);
@@ -2226,12 +2227,19 @@ int install_special_mapping(struct mm_struct *mm,
 	vma->vm_ops = &special_mapping_vmops;
 	vma->vm_private_data = pages;
 
-	if (unlikely(insert_vm_struct(mm, vma))) {
-		kmem_cache_free(vm_area_cachep, vma);
-		return -ENOMEM;
-	}
+	ret = security_file_mmap(NULL, 0, 0, 0, vma->vm_start, 1);
+	if (ret)
+		goto out;
+
+	ret = insert_vm_struct(mm, vma);
+	if (ret)
+		goto out;
 
 	mm->total_vm += len >> PAGE_SHIFT;
 
 	return 0;
+
+out:
+	kmem_cache_free(vm_area_cachep, vma);
+	return ret;
 }
-- 
1.7.0.4





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