linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] aio: fix kernel memory disclosure in io

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Message-ID: <20140624183918.GM23137@kvack.org>
Date:	Tue, 24 Jun 2014 14:39:18 -0400
From:	Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@...ck.org>
To:	Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	security@...nel.org, linux-aio@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Mateusz Guzik <mguzik@...hat.com>,
	Petr Matousek <pmatouse@...hat.com>,
	Kent Overstreet <kmo@...erainc.com>, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] aio: fix kernel memory disclosure in io_getevents() introduced in v3.10

On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 02:23:20PM -0400, Jeff Moyer wrote:
> Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@...ck.org> writes:
> 
> > A kernel memory disclosure was introduced in aio_read_events_ring() in v3.10
> > by commit a31ad380bed817aa25f8830ad23e1a0480fef797.  The changes made to
> > aio_read_events_ring() failed to correctly limit the index into
> > ctx->ring_pages[], allowing an attacked to cause the subsequent kmap() of
> > an arbitrary page with a copy_to_user() to copy the contents into userspace.
> > This vulnerability has been assigned CVE-2014-0206.  Thanks to Mateusz and
> > Petr for disclosing this issue.
> >
> > This patch applies to v3.12+.  A separate backport is needed for 3.10/3.11.
> 
> Note that a 3.10 backport will need to remove this line from free_ioctx
> as well:
>                 atomic_sub(avail, &ctx->reqs_active);
> 
> Reviewed-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@...hat.com>

Can you post the backport for 3.10 so the -stable folks have something they 
can use that was tested?  Cheers,

		-ben
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