3.0-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org> commit 2702b1526c7278c4d65d78de209a465d4de2885e upstream. Calling uname() with the UNAME26 personality set allows a leak of kernel stack contents. This fixes it by defensively calculating the length of copy_to_user() call, making the len argument unsigned, and initializing the stack buffer to zero (now technically unneeded, but hey, overkill). CVE-2012-0957 Reported-by: PaX Team <pagee...@freemail.hu> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <a...@linux.intel.com> Cc: PaX Team <pagee...@freemail.hu> Cc: Brad Spengler <spen...@grsecurity.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> --- kernel/sys.c | 12 +++++++----- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/sys.c +++ b/kernel/sys.c @@ -1133,15 +1133,16 @@ DECLARE_RWSEM(uts_sem); * Work around broken programs that cannot handle "Linux 3.0". * Instead we map 3.x to 2.6.40+x, so e.g. 3.0 would be 2.6.40 */ -static int override_release(char __user *release, int len) +static int override_release(char __user *release, size_t len) { int ret = 0; - char buf[65]; if (current->personality & UNAME26) { - char *rest = UTS_RELEASE; + const char *rest = UTS_RELEASE; + char buf[65] = { 0 }; int ndots = 0; unsigned v; + size_t copy; while (*rest) { if (*rest == '.' && ++ndots >= 3) @@ -1151,8 +1152,9 @@ static int override_release(char __user rest++; } v = ((LINUX_VERSION_CODE >> 8) & 0xff) + 40; - snprintf(buf, len, "2.6.%u%s", v, rest); - ret = copy_to_user(release, buf, len); + copy = min(sizeof(buf), max_t(size_t, 1, len)); + copy = scnprintf(buf, copy, "2.6.%u%s", v, rest); + ret = copy_to_user(release, buf, copy + 1); } return ret; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/