oss-security - [PATCH] exec argument expansion can inappropriately trigger OOM-killer

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Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2010 15:02:58 -0700
From: Kees Cook <kees.cook@...onical.com>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
        KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
        Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>,
        Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] exec argument expansion can inappropriately trigger
 OOM-killer

Brad Spengler published a local memory-allocation DoS that
evades the OOM-killer (though not the virtual memory RLIMIT):
http://www.grsecurity.net/~spender/64bit_dos.c

The recent changes to create a stack guard page helps slightly to
discourage this attack, but it is not sufficient. Compiling it statically
moves the libraries out of the way, allowing the stack VMA to fill the
entire TASK_SIZE.

There are two issues:
 1) the OOM killer doesn't notice this argv memory explosion
 2) the argv expansion does not check if rlim[RLIMIT_STACK].rlim_cur is -1.

I figure a quick solution for #2 would be the following patch. However,
running multiple copies of this program could result in similar OOM
behavior, so issue #1 still needs a solution.

Reported-by: Brad Spengler <spender@...ecurity.net>
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@...onical.com>
---
 fs/exec.c |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index dab85ec..be40063 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -194,7 +194,8 @@ static struct page *get_arg_page(struct linux_binprm *bprm, unsigned long pos,
 		 *    to work from.
 		 */
 		rlim = current->signal->rlim;
-		if (size > ACCESS_ONCE(rlim[RLIMIT_STACK].rlim_cur) / 4) {
+		if (size > ACCESS_ONCE(rlim[RLIMIT_STACK].rlim_cur) / 4 ||
+		    size > TASK_SIZE / 4) {
 			put_page(page);
 			return NULL;
 		}
-- 
1.7.1

-- 
Kees Cook
Ubuntu Security Team

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