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Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2016 17:03:08 -0400
From: Steve Grubb <sgrubb@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: cve-assign@...re.org
Subject: Re: Re: Partial SMAP bypass on 64-bit Linux kernels
On Thursday, March 31, 2016 04:31:25 PM cve-assign@...re.org wrote:
> > https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git/commit/?h=x86/urg
> > ent&id=3d44d51bd339766f0178f0cf2e8d048b4a4872aa
> >
> > That patch fixes a bug that exposed a fairly large kernel code surface
> > to a straightforward SMAP bypass.
> >
> >> From: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@...ian.org>
> >> Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 17:00:03 +0200
> >>
> >> @MITRE CVE assignment team: Would it make sense to have a CVE id
> >> assigned for this issue for better trackability?
>
> We're going to approach this one in the same way as the issue that was
> later assigned CVE-2016-2847.
>
> Specifically, is there anyone who believes
> 3d44d51bd339766f0178f0cf2e8d048b4a4872aa must not have a CVE ID?
>
> The situation, very roughly, seems to be that the upstream vendor has
> announced that the behavior is a bug. CLAC occurs at a correct place
> for some types of entries, but accidentally did not occur at a correct
> place in the case of entries through the int80 gate. Consequently,
> exploits of kernel vulnerabilities can cause more damage in some
> cases.
>
> However, it seems to be a bug in how the kernel responds to a
> post-exploitation attack pattern. This is not a topic area that
> commonly has CVE ID assignments. Access by the kernel to a user space
> page is not an action that "crosses a privilege boundary" in a
> traditional sense.
What if an unprivileged application triggered a NULL pointer dereference that
was supposed to be accessing a data structure in the kernel for a policy
decision but instead used an attacker controlled structure mapped at address
0?
-Steve
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