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Message-ID: <20101202052114.GL18995@ksplice.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2010 00:21:14 -0500
From: Nelson Elhage <nelhage@...lice.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: kernel: Dangerous interaction between clear_child_tid, set_fs(),
and kernel oopses
I've discovered an interesting interaction in the Linux kernel between the
clear_child_tid feature of clone(2), and the set_fs() function used internally
in the kernel to temporarily disable access_ok() checking of userspace pointers.
Under some (not totally uncommon) circumstances, it is possible for a user to
leverage this interaction to turn a kernel oops or BUG() into a write of an
integer 0 to a user-controlled address in kernel memory.
I'm not sure if this merits a CVE or not; It is (as far as I can tell) only a
problem in the presence of another security bug, but it potentially makes a
large class of bugs significantly more dangerous (DoS -> privesc).
Reference:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2010/12/1/543
- Nelson
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