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Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 19:28:05 -0700
From: dann frazier <dannf@...ian.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: Re: CVE request - kernel: DoS on x86_64
On Mon, Feb 01, 2010 at 01:09:12PM +0800, Eugene Teo wrote:
> Reported by Mathias Krause. The problem seams to be located in
> fs/binfmt_elf.c:load_elf_binary(). It calls SET_PERSONALITY() prior
> checking that the ELF interpreter is available. This in turn makes the
> previously 32 bit process a 64 bit one which would be fine if execve()
> would succeed. But after the SET_PERSONALITY() the open_exec() call
> fails (because it cannot find the interpreter) and execve() almost
> instantly returns with an error. If you now look at /proc/PID/maps
> you'll see, that it has the vsyscall page mapped which shouldn't be. But
> the process is not dead yet, it's still running. By now generating a
> segmentation fault and in turn trying to generate a core dump the
> kernel just dies.
>
> Steps to Reproduce:
> 1. Enable core dumps
> 2. Start an 32 bit program that tries to execve() an 64 bit program
> 3. The 64 bit program cannot be started by the kernel because it can't
> find the interpreter, i.e. execve returns with an error
> 4. Generate a segmentation fault
> 5. panic
>
> Upstream commit:
> http://git.kernel.org/linus/221af7f87b97431e3ee21ce4b0e77d5411cf1549
Thanks Eugene.
Also note this fix for a regression in the above:
http://git.kernel.org/linus/7ab02af428c2d312c0cf8fb0b01cc1eb21131a3d
--
dann frazier
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