oss-security - CVE Request: kernel info leak in tkill/tgkill

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Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2013 19:56:09 +0200
From: Marcus Meissner <meissner@...e.de>
To: OSS Security List <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: CVE Request: kernel info leak in tkill/tgkill

Hi,

This small Linux kernel info leaks still needs a CVE I think.

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Author: Emese Revfy <re.emese@...il.com>
Date:   Wed Apr 17 15:58:36 2013 -0700

    kernel/signal.c: stop info leak via the tkill and the tgkill syscalls

    This fixes a kernel memory contents leak via the tkill and tgkill syscalls
    for compat processes.

    This is visible in the siginfo_t->_sifields._rt.si_sigval.sival_ptr field
    when handling signals delivered from tkill.

    The place of the infoleak:

    int copy_siginfo_to_user32(compat_siginfo_t __user *to, siginfo_t *from)
    {
            ...
            put_user_ex(ptr_to_compat(from->si_ptr), &to->si_ptr);
            ...
    }

    Signed-off-by: Emese Revfy <re.emese@...il.com>
    Reviewed-by: PaX Team <pageexec@...email.hu>
    Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
    Cc: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
    Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
    Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
    Cc: Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@...onical.com>
    Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>

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