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authorJarod Wilson <jwilson@redhat.com>2008-09-09 12:38:56 +0200
committerMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>2008-09-09 12:39:06 +0200
commit3d6e48f43340343d97839eadb1ab7b6a3ea98797 (patch)
tree81d1c8709ef5a1dc8cd8c6e44072928f7c0f903a /arch/s390/kernel/compat_ptrace.h
parent82a28c794f27aac17d7a3ebd7f14d731a11a5532 (diff)
[S390] CVE-2008-1514: prevent ptrace padding area read/write in 31-bit mode
When running a 31-bit ptrace, on either an s390 or s390x kernel, reads and writes into a padding area in struct user_regs_struct32 will result in a kernel panic. This is also known as CVE-2008-1514. Test case available here: http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/tests/ptrace-tests/tests/user-area-padding.c?cvsroot=systemtap Steps to reproduce: 1) wget the above 2) gcc -o user-area-padding-31bit user-area-padding.c -Wall -ggdb2 -D_GNU_SOURCE -m31 3) ./user-area-padding-31bit <panic> Test status ----------- Without patch, both s390 and s390x kernels panic. With patch, the test case, as well as the gdb testsuite, pass without incident, padding area reads returning zero, writes ignored. Nb: original version returned -EINVAL on write attempts, which broke the gdb test and made the test case slightly unhappy, Jan Kratochvil suggested the change to return 0 on write attempts. Signed-off-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com> Tested-by: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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diff --git a/arch/s390/kernel/compat_ptrace.h b/arch/s390/kernel/compat_ptrace.h
index cde81fa64f89..a2be3a978d5c 100644
--- a/arch/s390/kernel/compat_ptrace.h
+++ b/arch/s390/kernel/compat_ptrace.h
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ struct user_regs_struct32
u32 gprs[NUM_GPRS];
u32 acrs[NUM_ACRS];
u32 orig_gpr2;
+ /* nb: there's a 4-byte hole here */
s390_fp_regs fp_regs;
/*
* These per registers are in here so that gdb can modify them