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Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 17:27:54 -0700
From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>
To: oss security list <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: CVE Request: Linux x86_64 NT flag issue
When I fixed Linux's NT flag handling, I added an optimization to
Linux 3.19 and up. A malicious 32-bit program might be able to leak
NT into an unrelated task. On a CONFIG_PREEMPT=y kernel, this is a
straightforward DoS. On a CONFIG_PREEMPT=n kernel, it's probably
still exploitable for DoS with some more care.
I believe that this could be used for privilege escalation, too, but
it won't be easy.
The fix is just to revert the optimization:
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=512255a2ad2c832ca7d4de9f31245f73781922d0
Mitigation: CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION=n. Seccomp does *not* mitigate this bug.
--Andy
P.S. This is yet another x86 mis-design leading to garbage results.
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