linux-kernel - [PATCH] proc: protect mm start_code/end

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Date:	Fri, 11 Mar 2011 13:27:47 -0800
From:	Kees Cook <kees.cook@...onical.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	Kees Cook <kees.cook@...onical.com>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Eugene Teo <eugeneteo@...nel.sg>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH] proc: protect mm start_code/end_code in /proc/pid/stat

While mm->start_stack was protected from cross-uid viewing (commit
f83ce3e6b02d5e48b3a43b001390e2b58820389d), the start_code and end_code
values were not. This would allow the text location of a PIE binary to
leak, defeating ASLR.

Note that the value "1" is used instead of "0" for a protected value
since "ps", "killall", and likely other readers of /proc/pid/stat, take
start_code of "0" to mean a kernel thread and will misbehave. Thanks to
Brad Spengler for pointing this out.

CVE-2011-0726

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees.cook@...onical.com>
Cc: stable@...nel.org
---
 fs/proc/array.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/proc/array.c b/fs/proc/array.c
index 7c99c1c..5e4f776 100644
--- a/fs/proc/array.c
+++ b/fs/proc/array.c
@@ -489,8 +489,8 @@ static int do_task_stat(struct seq_file *m, struct pid_namespace *ns,
 		vsize,
 		mm ? get_mm_rss(mm) : 0,
 		rsslim,
-		mm ? mm->start_code : 0,
-		mm ? mm->end_code : 0,
+		mm ? (permitted ? mm->start_code : 1) : 0,
+		mm ? (permitted ? mm->end_code : 1) : 0,
 		(permitted && mm) ? mm->start_stack : 0,
 		esp,
 		eip,
-- 
1.7.4.1

-- 
Kees Cook
Ubuntu Security Team
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