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authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>2010-09-10 09:59:51 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-09-10 07:30:00 -0700
commit3d96406c7da1ed5811ea52a3b0905f4f0e295376 (patch)
tree051e3a0ab6b0c9d9ac12b88fd244ff09766f8f50 /security
parent9d1ac65a9698513d00e5608d93fca0c53f536c14 (diff)
KEYS: Fix bug in keyctl_session_to_parent() if parent has no session keyring
Fix a bug in keyctl_session_to_parent() whereby it tries to check the ownership of the parent process's session keyring whether or not the parent has a session keyring [CVE-2010-2960]. This results in the following oops: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000000000a0 IP: [<ffffffff811ae4dd>] keyctl_session_to_parent+0x251/0x443 ... Call Trace: [<ffffffff811ae2f3>] ? keyctl_session_to_parent+0x67/0x443 [<ffffffff8109d286>] ? __do_fault+0x24b/0x3d0 [<ffffffff811af98c>] sys_keyctl+0xb4/0xb8 [<ffffffff81001eab>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b if the parent process has no session keyring. If the system is using pam_keyinit then it mostly protected against this as all processes derived from a login will have inherited the session keyring created by pam_keyinit during the log in procedure. To test this, pam_keyinit calls need to be commented out in /etc/pam.d/. Reported-by: Tavis Ormandy <taviso@cmpxchg8b.com> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Acked-by: Tavis Ormandy <taviso@cmpxchg8b.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'security')
-rw-r--r--security/keys/keyctl.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/security/keys/keyctl.c b/security/keys/keyctl.c
index 3868c6700b5..60924f6a52d 100644
--- a/security/keys/keyctl.c
+++ b/security/keys/keyctl.c
@@ -1305,7 +1305,8 @@ long keyctl_session_to_parent(void)
goto not_permitted;
/* the keyrings must have the same UID */
- if (pcred->tgcred->session_keyring->uid != mycred->euid ||
+ if ((pcred->tgcred->session_keyring &&
+ pcred->tgcred->session_keyring->uid != mycred->euid) ||
mycred->tgcred->session_keyring->uid != mycred->euid)
goto not_permitted;