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Message-ID: <28fa9c5e0903012244m557ec963w358917b1b66a9031@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 14:44:05 +0800
From: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@...nel.sg>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: CVE request: kernel: x86-64: seccomp: 32/64 syscall hole
On x86-64, a 32-bit process (TIF_IA32) can switch to 64-bit mode with
ljmp, and then use the "syscall" instruction to make a 64-bit system
call. A 64-bit process make a 32-bit system call with int $0x80.
In both these cases under CONFIG_SECCOMP=y, secure_computing() will
use the wrong system call number table. The fix is simple: test
TS_COMPAT instead of TIF_IA32.
Credit: Chris Evans.
References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487255
http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2009-001.html
http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2009-004.html
http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/2/27/451 summary
http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/2/27/452 syscall-audit
http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/2/27/453 seccomp
http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/2/28/23 seccomp follow-ups
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