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Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2020 09:36:24 -0700
From: Steve Beattie <steve@...w.org>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: CVE-2020-8835: Linux kernel bpf incorrect verifier vulnerability
[re-sending, apologies if a prior version makes it to the list.]
Manfred Paul, as part of the ZDI pwn2own competition, demonstrated
that a flaw existed in the bpf verifier for 32bit operations. This
was introduced in commit:
581738a681b6 ("bpf: Provide better register bounds after jmp32 instructions")
The result is that register bounds were improperly calculated,
allowing out-of-bounds reads and writes to occur.
This issue affects 5.5 kernels, and was backported to 5.4-stable
as b4de258dede528f88f401259aab3147fb6da1ddf. The Linux kernel bpf
maintainers recommend reverting the patch for stable releases:
https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20200330160324.15259-1-daniel@iogearbox.net/T/
This bpf functionality is available to unprivileged users unless the
kernel.unprivileged_bpf_disabled sysctl is set to 1.
This issue has been identified as CVE-2020-8835 (and ZDI-CAN-10780).
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2020/CVE-2020-8835.html
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Steve Beattie
<sbeattie@...ntu.com>
http://NxNW.org/~steve/
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