[PATCH 3.16.y-ckt 130/130] signal: fix information leak in copy_siginfo_from_user32

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Fri Sep 4 13:08:38 UTC 2015


3.16.7-ckt17 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Amanieu d'Antras <amanieu at gmail.com>

commit 3c00cb5e68dc719f2fc73a33b1b230aadfcb1309 upstream.

This function can leak kernel stack data when the user siginfo_t has a
positive si_code value.  The top 16 bits of si_code descibe which fields
in the siginfo_t union are active, but they are treated inconsistently
between copy_siginfo_from_user32, copy_siginfo_to_user32 and
copy_siginfo_to_user.

copy_siginfo_from_user32 is called from rt_sigqueueinfo and
rt_tgsigqueueinfo in which the user has full control overthe top 16 bits
of si_code.

This fixes the following information leaks:
x86:   8 bytes leaked when sending a signal from a 32-bit process to
       itself. This leak grows to 16 bytes if the process uses x32.
       (si_code = __SI_CHLD)
x86:   100 bytes leaked when sending a signal from a 32-bit process to
       a 64-bit process. (si_code = -1)
sparc: 4 bytes leaked when sending a signal from a 32-bit process to a
       64-bit process. (si_code = any)

parsic and s390 have similar bugs, but they are not vulnerable because
rt_[tg]sigqueueinfo have checks that prevent sending a positive si_code
to a different process.  These bugs are also fixed for consistency.

Signed-off-by: Amanieu d'Antras <amanieu at gmail.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg at redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo at kernel.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk at arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf at linux-mips.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf at ezchip.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/signal32.c    | 2 --
 arch/mips/kernel/signal32.c     | 2 --
 arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c | 2 --
 kernel/signal.c                 | 4 ++--
 4 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/signal32.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/signal32.c
index bf32174fe11f..3e6ea07a0b0f 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/signal32.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/signal32.c
@@ -196,8 +196,6 @@ int copy_siginfo_to_user32(compat_siginfo_t __user *to, const siginfo_t *from)
 
 int copy_siginfo_from_user32(siginfo_t *to, compat_siginfo_t __user *from)
 {
-	memset(to, 0, sizeof *to);
-
 	if (copy_from_user(to, from, __ARCH_SI_PREAMBLE_SIZE) ||
 	    copy_from_user(to->_sifields._pad,
 			   from->_sifields._pad, SI_PAD_SIZE))
diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/signal32.c b/arch/mips/kernel/signal32.c
index bae2e6ee2109..6999c461d844 100644
--- a/arch/mips/kernel/signal32.c
+++ b/arch/mips/kernel/signal32.c
@@ -409,8 +409,6 @@ int copy_siginfo_to_user32(compat_siginfo_t __user *to, const siginfo_t *from)
 
 int copy_siginfo_from_user32(siginfo_t *to, compat_siginfo_t __user *from)
 {
-	memset(to, 0, sizeof *to);
-
 	if (copy_from_user(to, from, 3*sizeof(int)) ||
 	    copy_from_user(to->_sifields._pad,
 			   from->_sifields._pad, SI_PAD_SIZE32))
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c
index 1bc5a1755ed4..84d9e9bc6415 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_32.c
@@ -966,8 +966,6 @@ int copy_siginfo_to_user32(struct compat_siginfo __user *d, const siginfo_t *s)
 
 int copy_siginfo_from_user32(siginfo_t *to, struct compat_siginfo __user *from)
 {
-	memset(to, 0, sizeof *to);
-
 	if (copy_from_user(to, from, 3*sizeof(int)) ||
 	    copy_from_user(to->_sifields._pad,
 			   from->_sifields._pad, SI_PAD_SIZE32))
diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c
index 11fa21958bf1..720fad0817e4 100644
--- a/kernel/signal.c
+++ b/kernel/signal.c
@@ -3013,7 +3013,7 @@ COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE3(rt_sigqueueinfo,
 			int, sig,
 			struct compat_siginfo __user *, uinfo)
 {
-	siginfo_t info;
+	siginfo_t info = {};
 	int ret = copy_siginfo_from_user32(&info, uinfo);
 	if (unlikely(ret))
 		return ret;
@@ -3059,7 +3059,7 @@ COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE4(rt_tgsigqueueinfo,
 			int, sig,
 			struct compat_siginfo __user *, uinfo)
 {
-	siginfo_t info;
+	siginfo_t info = {};
 
 	if (copy_siginfo_from_user32(&info, uinfo))
 		return -EFAULT;




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