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Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 10:21:14 -0400 (EDT)
From: cve-assign@...re.org
To: amaris@...hat.com
Cc: cve-assign@...re.org, oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: CVE request: crash when attempt to garbage collect an uninstantiated keyring - Linux kernel
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> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ce1fad2740c648a4340f6f6c391a8a83769d2e8c
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1272371
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1272172
> i=`keyctl add user a a @s`
> keyctl request2 keyring foo bar @t
> keyctl unlink $i @s
>
> tries to invoke an upcall to instantiate a keyring if one doesn't already
> exist by that name within the user's keyring set. However, if the upcall
> fails, the code sets keyring->type_data.reject_error to -ENOKEY or some
> other error code. When the key is garbage collected, the key destroy
> function is called unconditionally and keyring_destroy() uses list_empty()
> on keyring->type_data.link - which is in a union with reject_error.
> Subsequently, the kernel tries to unlink the keyring from the keyring names
> list - which oopses
> The solution is to only call ->destroy() if the key was successfully
> instantiated.
>> Prevent a user-triggerable crash in the keyrings destructor when a
>> negatively instantiated keyring is garbage collected.
Use CVE-2015-7872.
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