[PATCH 3.13 185/198] aio: fix kernel memory disclosure in io_getevents() introduced in v3.10

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Tue Jul 15 21:30:55 UTC 2014


3.13.11.5 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl at kvack.org>

commit edfbbf388f293d70bf4b7c0bc38774d05e6f711a upstream.

A kernel memory disclosure was introduced in aio_read_events_ring() in v3.10
by commit a31ad380bed817aa25f8830ad23e1a0480fef797.  The changes made to
aio_read_events_ring() failed to correctly limit the index into
ctx->ring_pages[], allowing an attacked to cause the subsequent kmap() of
an arbitrary page with a copy_to_user() to copy the contents into userspace.
This vulnerability has been assigned CVE-2014-0206.  Thanks to Mateusz and
Petr for disclosing this issue.

This patch applies to v3.12+.  A separate backport is needed for 3.10/3.11.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl at kvack.org>
Cc: Mateusz Guzik <mguzik at redhat.com>
Cc: Petr Matousek <pmatouse at redhat.com>
Cc: Kent Overstreet <kmo at daterainc.com>
Cc: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 fs/aio.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/fs/aio.c b/fs/aio.c
index e9566f2..19e7d95 100644
--- a/fs/aio.c
+++ b/fs/aio.c
@@ -1049,6 +1049,9 @@ static long aio_read_events_ring(struct kioctx *ctx,
 	if (head == tail)
 		goto out;
 
+	head %= ctx->nr_events;
+	tail %= ctx->nr_events;
+
 	while (ret < nr) {
 		long avail;
 		struct io_event *ev;
-- 
1.9.1





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