oss-security - CVE-2009-2691 kernel: /proc/$pid/maps visible during initial setuid ELF loading

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Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2009 11:17:12 +0800
From: Eugene Teo <eugene@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>, Kees Cook <kees@...ntu.com>
Subject: CVE-2009-2691 kernel: /proc/$pid/maps visible during initial setuid
 ELF loading

Steve Beattie and Kees Cook noticed that the /proc/$pid/maps and smaps
files are readable during ELF loading for processes that a user should
not normally be able to see (for example, when launching a setuid process).

I have assigned this with CVE-2009-2691.

Upstream commits:
http://git.kernel.org/linus/13f0feafa6b8aead57a2a328e2fca6a5828bf286
http://git.kernel.org/linus/00f89d218523b9bf6b522349c039d5ac80aa536d
http://git.kernel.org/linus/704b836cbf19e885f8366bccb2e4b0474346c02d

References:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/23/652
http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/6/23/653
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124718946021193
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124718949821250
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2009-2691

Thanks, Eugene

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