diff options
author | Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com> | 2017-04-18 15:31:09 +0100 |
---|---|---|
committer | David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> | 2017-04-18 15:31:49 +0100 |
commit | c9f838d104fed6f2f61d68164712e3204bf5271b (patch) | |
tree | 11f3973c37a4070994d1f64ed444a233ef7f10b4 /ipc/msg.c | |
parent | c1644fe041ebaf6519f6809146a77c3ead9193af (diff) | |
download | linux-c9f838d104fed6f2f61d68164712e3204bf5271b.tar.bz2 |
KEYS: fix keyctl_set_reqkey_keyring() to not leak thread keyrings
This fixes CVE-2017-7472.
Running the following program as an unprivileged user exhausts kernel
memory by leaking thread keyrings:
#include <keyutils.h>
int main()
{
for (;;)
keyctl_set_reqkey_keyring(KEY_REQKEY_DEFL_THREAD_KEYRING);
}
Fix it by only creating a new thread keyring if there wasn't one before.
To make things more consistent, make install_thread_keyring_to_cred()
and install_process_keyring_to_cred() both return 0 if the corresponding
keyring is already present.
Fixes: d84f4f992cbd ("CRED: Inaugurate COW credentials")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 2.6.29+
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'ipc/msg.c')
0 files changed, 0 insertions, 0 deletions