[PATCH 3.13.y-ckt 65/95] fs/binfmt_elf.c: fix bug in loading of PIE binaries

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Wed May 27 19:00:13 UTC 2015


3.13.11-ckt21 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Michael Davidson <md at google.com>

commit a87938b2e246b81b4fb713edb371a9fa3c5c3c86 upstream.

With CONFIG_ARCH_BINFMT_ELF_RANDOMIZE_PIE enabled, and a normal top-down
address allocation strategy, load_elf_binary() will attempt to map a PIE
binary into an address range immediately below mm->mmap_base.

Unfortunately, load_elf_ binary() does not take account of the need to
allocate sufficient space for the entire binary which means that, while
the first PT_LOAD segment is mapped below mm->mmap_base, the subsequent
PT_LOAD segment(s) end up being mapped above mm->mmap_base into the are
that is supposed to be the "gap" between the stack and the binary.

Since the size of the "gap" on x86_64 is only guaranteed to be 128MB this
means that binaries with large data segments > 128MB can end up mapping
part of their data segment over their stack resulting in corruption of the
stack (and the data segment once the binary starts to run).

Any PIE binary with a data segment > 128MB is vulnerable to this although
address randomization means that the actual gap between the stack and the
end of the binary is normally greater than 128MB.  The larger the data
segment of the binary the higher the probability of failure.

Fix this by calculating the total size of the binary in the same way as
load_elf_interp().

Signed-off-by: Michael Davidson <md at google.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro at zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina at suse.cz>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 fs/binfmt_elf.c | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/fs/binfmt_elf.c b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
index e714d7e..99b4bcf 100644
--- a/fs/binfmt_elf.c
+++ b/fs/binfmt_elf.c
@@ -754,6 +754,7 @@ static int load_elf_binary(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
 	    i < loc->elf_ex.e_phnum; i++, elf_ppnt++) {
 		int elf_prot = 0, elf_flags;
 		unsigned long k, vaddr;
+		unsigned long total_size = 0;
 
 		if (elf_ppnt->p_type != PT_LOAD)
 			continue;
@@ -818,10 +819,16 @@ static int load_elf_binary(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
 #else
 			load_bias = ELF_PAGESTART(ELF_ET_DYN_BASE - vaddr);
 #endif
+			total_size = total_mapping_size(elf_phdata,
+							loc->elf_ex.e_phnum);
+			if (!total_size) {
+				error = -EINVAL;
+				goto out_free_dentry;
+			}
 		}
 
 		error = elf_map(bprm->file, load_bias + vaddr, elf_ppnt,
-				elf_prot, elf_flags, 0);
+				elf_prot, elf_flags, total_size);
 		if (BAD_ADDR(error)) {
 			send_sig(SIGKILL, current, 0);
 			retval = IS_ERR((void *)error) ?
-- 
1.9.1





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