aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiff
path: root/include/linux
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
authorMathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com>2013-11-12 15:11:47 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2013-12-04 10:56:10 -0800
commit4b825b95aaa48c706d24c804f7edff228bd6af70 (patch)
tree567fca26210104b5d8eafdf9a41bcc38ae4c1c7a /include/linux
parentbfe84321327047afc355bcfc4c0bd30c25fddccc (diff)
ipc, msg: fix message length check for negative values
commit 4e9b45a19241354daec281d7a785739829b52359 upstream. On 64 bit systems the test for negative message sizes is bogus as the size, which may be positive when evaluated as a long, will get truncated to an int when passed to load_msg(). So a long might very well contain a positive value but when truncated to an int it would become negative. That in combination with a small negative value of msg_ctlmax (which will be promoted to an unsigned type for the comparison against msgsz, making it a big positive value and therefore make it pass the check) will lead to two problems: 1/ The kmalloc() call in alloc_msg() will allocate a too small buffer as the addition of alen is effectively a subtraction. 2/ The copy_from_user() call in load_msg() will first overflow the buffer with userland data and then, when the userland access generates an access violation, the fixup handler copy_user_handle_tail() will try to fill the remainder with zeros -- roughly 4GB. That almost instantly results in a system crash or reset. ,-[ Reproducer (needs to be run as root) ]-- | #include <sys/stat.h> | #include <sys/msg.h> | #include <unistd.h> | #include <fcntl.h> | | int main(void) { | long msg = 1; | int fd; | | fd = open("/proc/sys/kernel/msgmax", O_WRONLY); | write(fd, "-1", 2); | close(fd); | | msgsnd(0, &msg, 0xfffffff0, IPC_NOWAIT); | | return 0; | } '--- Fix the issue by preventing msgsz from getting truncated by consistently using size_t for the message length. This way the size checks in do_msgsnd() could still be passed with a negative value for msg_ctlmax but we would fail on the buffer allocation in that case and error out. Also change the type of m_ts from int to size_t to avoid similar nastiness in other code paths -- it is used in similar constructs, i.e. signed vs. unsigned checks. It should never become negative under normal circumstances, though. Setting msg_ctlmax to a negative value is an odd configuration and should be prevented. As that might break existing userland, it will be handled in a separate commit so it could easily be reverted and reworked without reintroducing the above described bug. Hardening mechanisms for user copy operations would have catched that bug early -- e.g. checking slab object sizes on user copy operations as the usercopy feature of the PaX patch does. Or, for that matter, detect the long vs. int sign change due to truncation, as the size overflow plugin of the very same patch does. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix i386 min() warnings] Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@googlemail.com> Cc: Pax Team <pageexec@freemail.hu> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <davidlohr@hp.com> Cc: Brad Spengler <spender@grsecurity.net> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/msg.h6
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/msg.h b/include/linux/msg.h
index 391af8d11cc..e21f9d44307 100644
--- a/include/linux/msg.h
+++ b/include/linux/msg.h
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@
/* one msg_msg structure for each message */
struct msg_msg {
- struct list_head m_list;
- long m_type;
- int m_ts; /* message text size */
+ struct list_head m_list;
+ long m_type;
+ size_t m_ts; /* message text size */
struct msg_msgseg* next;
void *security;
/* the actual message follows immediately */