linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] unix: properly account for FDs passed over unix sockets

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Message-ID: <20151231071253.GG14369@1wt.eu>
Date:	Thu, 31 Dec 2015 08:12:53 +0100
From:	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
To:	Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc:	hannes@...essinduktion.org, davem@...emloft.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, edumazet@...gle.com,
	socketpair@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] unix: properly account for FDs passed over unix sockets

On Thu, Dec 31, 2015 at 03:08:53PM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> Willy Tarreau wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 30, 2015 at 09:58:42AM +0100, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:
> > > The MSG_PEEK code should not be harmful and the patch is good as is. I 
> > > first understood from the published private thread, that it is possible 
> > > for a program to exceed the rlimit of fds. But the DoS is only by 
> > > keeping the fds in flight and not attaching them to any program.
> > 
> > Exactly. The real issue is when these FDs become very expensive such as
> > pipes full of data.
> > 
> 
> As you wrote how to abuse this vulnerability which exists in Linux 2.0
> and later kernel, I quote a short description from private thread.
> 
>   "an unprivileged user consumes all file descriptors so that other
>   unprivileged user cannot work" and "an unprivileged user consumes all
>   kernel memory so that the OOM killer kills almost all processes before
>   the culprit process is killed (CVE-2013-4312)".
> 
> Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@...ove.SAKURA.ne.jp>
> Mitigates: CVE-2013-4312 (Linux 2.0+)

Well I didn't reveal any secret as it was publicly reported first
in 2010, it's only that Mark sent us the proof of concept exploit
on the security list recently :-)

    https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20402

Anyway I'll resend the patch with your reported-by, the CVE and
Hannes' ACK.

Thanks!
Willy

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