oss-security - Re: CVE request - kernel: information leak in sigaltstack

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Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:54:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
cc: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: Re: CVE request - kernel: information leak in
 sigaltstack

On Tue, 4 Aug 2009, Eugene Teo wrote:

> do_sigaltstack: avoid copying 'stack_t' as a structure to user space

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Name: CVE-2009-2847
Status: Candidate
URL: http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2009-2847
Reference: MILW0RM:9352
Reference: URL:http://www.milw0rm.com/exploits/9352
Reference: MLIST:[oss-security] 20090804 CVE request - kernel: information leak in sigaltstack
Reference: URL:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/08/04/1
Reference: MLIST:[oss-security] 20090805 Re: CVE request - kernel: information leak in sigaltstack
Reference: URL:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/08/05/1
Reference: CONFIRM:http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=0083fc2c50e6c5127c2802ad323adf8143ab7856
Reference: CONFIRM:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=515392

The do_sigaltstack function in kernel/signal.c in Linux kernel 2.6
before 2.6.31-rc5, when running on 64-bit systems, does not clear
certain padding bytes from a structure, which allows local users to
obtain sensitive information from the kernel stack via the sigaltstack
function.

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