From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755030AbZEDSva (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 May 2009 14:51:30 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752320AbZEDSvU (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 May 2009 14:51:20 -0400 Received: from vena.lwn.net ([206.168.112.25]:37962 "EHLO vena.lwn.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752142AbZEDSvT (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 May 2009 14:51:19 -0400 Date: Mon, 4 May 2009 12:51:14 -0600 From: Jake Edge To: , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, James Morris , linux-security-module@vger.kernel.org, Arjan van de Ven , Eric Paris , Alan Cox , Roland McGrath , mingo@redhat.com, Andrew Morton , Greg KH , ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Subject: [PATCH] proc: avoid information leaks to non-privileged processes Message-ID: <20090504125114.5e391564@chukar> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.14.7; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org This is essentially v2 of "[PATCH] proc: avoid leaking eip, esp, or wchan to non-privileged processes", adding some of Eric Biederman's suggestions as well as the start_stack change (only give out that address if the process is ptrace()-able). This has been tested with ps and top without any ill effects being seen. proc: avoid information leaks to non-privileged processes By using the same test as is used for /proc/pid/maps and /proc/pid/smaps, only allow processes that can ptrace() a given process to see information that might be used to bypass address space layout randomization (ASLR). These include eip, esp, wchan, and start_stack in /proc/pid/stat as well as the non-symbolic output from /proc/pid/wchan. ASLR can be bypassed by sampling eip as shown by the proof-of-concept code at http://code.google.com/p/fuzzyaslr/ As part of a presentation (http://www.cr0.org/paper/to-jt-linux-alsr-leak.pdf) esp and wchan were also noted as possibly usable information leaks as well. The start_stack address also leaks potentially useful information. Cc: Stable Team Signed-off-by: Jake Edge --- fs/proc/array.c | 13 +++++++++---- fs/proc/base.c | 5 ++++- 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/proc/array.c b/fs/proc/array.c index 7e4877d..725a650 100644 --- a/fs/proc/array.c +++ b/fs/proc/array.c @@ -80,6 +80,7 @@ #include #include #include +#include #include #include @@ -352,6 +353,7 @@ static int do_task_stat(struct seq_file *m, struct pid_namespace *ns, char state; pid_t ppid = 0, pgid = -1, sid = -1; int num_threads = 0; + int permitted; struct mm_struct *mm; unsigned long long start_time; unsigned long cmin_flt = 0, cmaj_flt = 0; @@ -364,11 +366,14 @@ static int do_task_stat(struct seq_file *m, struct pid_namespace *ns, state = *get_task_state(task); vsize = eip = esp = 0; + permitted = ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ); mm = get_task_mm(task); if (mm) { vsize = task_vsize(mm); - eip = KSTK_EIP(task); - esp = KSTK_ESP(task); + if (permitted) { + eip = KSTK_EIP(task); + esp = KSTK_ESP(task); + } } get_task_comm(tcomm, task); @@ -424,7 +429,7 @@ static int do_task_stat(struct seq_file *m, struct pid_namespace *ns, unlock_task_sighand(task, &flags); } - if (!whole || num_threads < 2) + if (permitted && (!whole || num_threads < 2)) wchan = get_wchan(task); if (!whole) { min_flt = task->min_flt; @@ -476,7 +481,7 @@ static int do_task_stat(struct seq_file *m, struct pid_namespace *ns, rsslim, mm ? mm->start_code : 0, mm ? mm->end_code : 0, - mm ? mm->start_stack : 0, + (permitted && mm) ? mm->start_stack : 0, esp, eip, /* The signal information here is obsolete. diff --git a/fs/proc/base.c b/fs/proc/base.c index aa763ab..fb45615 100644 --- a/fs/proc/base.c +++ b/fs/proc/base.c @@ -322,7 +322,10 @@ static int proc_pid_wchan(struct task_struct *task, char *buffer) wchan = get_wchan(task); if (lookup_symbol_name(wchan, symname) < 0) - return sprintf(buffer, "%lu", wchan); + if (!ptrace_may_access(task, PTRACE_MODE_READ)) + return 0; + else + return sprintf(buffer, "%lu", wchan); else return sprintf(buffer, "%s", symname); } -- 1.6.2.2 -- Jake Edge - LWN - jake@lwn.net - http://lwn.net