kernel/sys.c: fix stack memory content leak via UNAME26

Calling uname() with the UNAME26 personality set allows a leak of kernel stack contents. This fixes it by defensively calculating the length of copy_to_user() call, making the len argument unsigned, and initializing the stack buffer to zero (now technically unneeded, but hey, overkill). CVE-2012-0957 Reported-by: PaX Team <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <[email protected]> Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]> Cc: PaX Team <[email protected]> Cc: Brad Spengler <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
CamonZ · Oct 19, 2012 · 2702b15 · 2702b15
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commit 2702b15
Showing 1 changed file with 7 additions and 5 deletions.
diff --git a/kernel/sys.c b/kernel/sys.c
@@ -1265,15 +1265,16 @@ DECLARE_RWSEM(uts_sem);
  * Work around broken programs that cannot handle "Linux 3.0".
  * Instead we map 3.x to 2.6.40+x, so e.g. 3.0 would be 2.6.40
  */
-static int override_release(char __user *release, int len)
+static int override_release(char __user *release, size_t len)
 {
 	int ret = 0;
-	char buf[65];
 
 	if (current->personality & UNAME26) {
-		char *rest = UTS_RELEASE;
+		const char *rest = UTS_RELEASE;
+		char buf[65] = { 0 };
 		int ndots = 0;
 		unsigned v;
+		size_t copy;
 
 		while (*rest) {
 			if (*rest == '.' && ++ndots >= 3)
@@ -1283,8 +1284,9 @@ static int override_release(char __user *release, int len)
 			rest++;
 		}
 		v = ((LINUX_VERSION_CODE >> 8) & 0xff) + 40;
-		snprintf(buf, len, "2.6.%u%s", v, rest);
-		ret = copy_to_user(release, buf, len);
+		copy = min(sizeof(buf), max_t(size_t, 1, len));
+		copy = scnprintf(buf, copy, "2.6.%u%s", v, rest);
+		ret = copy_to_user(release, buf, copy + 1);
 	}
 	return ret;
 }