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| author | Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com> | 2011-03-24 00:42:53 +0100 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-03-24 03:46:37 +0100 |
| commit | 5883f57ca0008ffc93e09cbb9847a1928e50c6f3 (patch) | |
| tree | f7559549b81f1648b089ddfaa202644bf353b3b0 /fs/ext4/mballoc.h | |
| parent | proc: make struct proc_dir_entry::namelen unsigned int (diff) | |
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proc: protect mm start_code/end_code in /proc/pid/stat
While mm->start_stack was protected from cross-uid viewing (commit
f83ce3e6b02d5 ("proc: avoid information leaks to non-privileged
processes")), the start_code and end_code values were not. This would
allow the text location of a PIE binary to leak, defeating ASLR.
Note that the value "1" is used instead of "0" for a protected value since
"ps", "killall", and likely other readers of /proc/pid/stat, take
start_code of "0" to mean a kernel thread and will misbehave. Thanks to
Brad Spengler for pointing this out.
Addresses CVE-2011-0726
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@canonical.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@kernel.sg>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Brad Spengler <spender@grsecurity.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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