oss-security - CVE request: kernel: mm: avoid wrapping vm_pgoff in mremap() and stack expansions

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Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 22:19:50 +0200
From: Petr Matousek <pmatouse@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>,
        Joshua Bressers <bressers@...hat.com>, Eugene Teo <eteo@...hat.com>
Subject: CVE request: kernel: mm: avoid wrapping vm_pgoff in mremap() and
 stack expansions

Description of the problem:
The normal mmap paths all avoid creating a mapping where the pgoff
inside the mapping could wrap around due to overflow.  However, an
expanding mremap() can take such a non-wrapping mapping and make it
bigger and cause a wrapping condition. There is also another case
where we expand mappings hiding in plain sight: the automatic stack
expansion.

The wrapping condition can cause a BUG_ON() due to terminally
confusing the vma_prio_tree code.

Upstream patches:
982134ba62618c2d69fbbbd166d0a11ee3b7e3d8 mremap
a626ca6a656450e9f4df91d0dda238fff23285f4 stack expansion downwards
42c36f63ac1366ab0ecc2d5717821362c259f517 stack expansion upwards

References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=716538
http://www.spinics.net/lists/stable-commits/msg11385.html
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg17093.html
http://groups.google.com/group/fa.linux.kernel/msg/9e43ab898c5e6d16

Thanks,
-- 
Petr Matousek / Red Hat Security Response Team

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