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author | Yevgeny Pats <yevgeny@perception-point.io> | 2016-01-19 23:09:04 +0100 |
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committer | James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com> | 2016-01-20 00:50:48 +0100 |
commit | 23567fd052a9abb6d67fe8e7a9ccdd9800a540f2 (patch) | |
tree | 62bda9b504f3a664f60107c8e9280f78649dbe42 /security/keys/process_keys.c | |
parent | Fix the MAINTAINERS record for the certs/ directory (diff) | |
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KEYS: Fix keyring ref leak in join_session_keyring()
This fixes CVE-2016-0728.
If a thread is asked to join as a session keyring the keyring that's already
set as its session, we leak a keyring reference.
This can be tested with the following program:
#include <stddef.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <sys/types.h>
#include <keyutils.h>
int main(int argc, const char *argv[])
{
int i = 0;
key_serial_t serial;
serial = keyctl(KEYCTL_JOIN_SESSION_KEYRING,
"leaked-keyring");
if (serial < 0) {
perror("keyctl");
return -1;
}
if (keyctl(KEYCTL_SETPERM, serial,
KEY_POS_ALL | KEY_USR_ALL) < 0) {
perror("keyctl");
return -1;
}
for (i = 0; i < 100; i++) {
serial = keyctl(KEYCTL_JOIN_SESSION_KEYRING,
"leaked-keyring");
if (serial < 0) {
perror("keyctl");
return -1;
}
}
return 0;
}
If, after the program has run, there something like the following line in
/proc/keys:
3f3d898f I--Q--- 100 perm 3f3f0000 0 0 keyring leaked-keyring: empty
with a usage count of 100 * the number of times the program has been run,
then the kernel is malfunctioning. If leaked-keyring has zero usages or
has been garbage collected, then the problem is fixed.
Reported-by: Yevgeny Pats <yevgeny@perception-point.io>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to '')
-rw-r--r-- | security/keys/process_keys.c | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/security/keys/process_keys.c b/security/keys/process_keys.c index a3f85d2a00bb..e6d50172872f 100644 --- a/security/keys/process_keys.c +++ b/security/keys/process_keys.c @@ -794,6 +794,7 @@ long join_session_keyring(const char *name) ret = PTR_ERR(keyring); goto error2; } else if (keyring == new->session_keyring) { + key_put(keyring); ret = 0; goto error2; } |