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author | Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> | 2012-10-19 13:56:51 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-10-19 14:07:47 -0700 |
commit | 2702b1526c7278c4d65d78de209a465d4de2885e (patch) | |
tree | a41af3d56a6e37af19bc7ed392f2580750ba86cb /virt | |
parent | 1d46e232f8637f31f8df2e50b27fd20d8135bd93 (diff) | |
download | linux-2702b1526c7278c4d65d78de209a465d4de2885e.tar.bz2 |
kernel/sys.c: fix stack memory content leak via UNAME26
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 <pageexec@freemail.hu>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: PaX Team <pageexec@freemail.hu>
Cc: Brad Spengler <spender@grsecurity.net>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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