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Date: Tue, 11 May 2021 15:13:46 -0300
From: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@...onical.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: CVE-2021-3491 - Linux kernel io_uring PROVIDE_BUFFERS MAX_RW_COUNT
bypass
It was discovered that io_uring PROVIDE_BUFFERS operation allowed the
MAX_RW_COUNT limit to be bypassed, which led to negative values being used
in mem_rw when reading /proc/<PID>/mem.
Billy Jheng Bing-Jhong (@st424204) of STAR Labs working with Trend Micro's
Zero Day Initiative discovered that this vulnerability could be turned into
a heap overflow. This has been reported as ZDI-CAN-13546, and assigned
CVE-2021-3491.
IORING_OP_PROVIDE_BUFFERS was introduced in commit ddf0322db79c ("io_uring:
add IORING_OP_PROVIDE_BUFFERS") where lengths larger than MAX_RW_COUNT
could be used and accepted. This commit was introduced in 5.7-rc1. It was
not backported to any upstream LTS kernels.
This has been fixed by commit:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=d1f82808877bb10d3deee7cf3374a4eb3fb582db
Cascardo.
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