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Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2010 11:58:31 +0800
From: Eugene Teo <eugene@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
CC: "Steven M. Christey" <coley@...us.mitre.org>
Subject: CVE request: kernel: setup_arg_pages: diagnose excessive argument
size
"The CONFIG_STACK_GROWSDOWN variant of setup_arg_pages() does not check
the size of the argument/environment area on the stack. When it is
unworkably large, shift_arg_pages() hits its BUG_ON. This is exploitable
with a very large RLIMIT_STACK limit, to create a crash pretty easily.
Check that the initial stack is not too large to make it possible to map
in any executable. We're not checking that the actual executable (or
intepreter, for binfmt_elf) will fit. So those mappings might clobber
part of the initial stack mapping. But that is just userland lossage
that userland made happen, not a kernel problem."
Upstream commit:
http://git.kernel.org/linus/1b528181b2ffa14721fb28ad1bd539fe1732c583
References:
http://grsecurity.net/~spender/64bit_dos.c
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=645222
Eugene
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