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author | Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> | 2008-04-29 00:59:24 -0700 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-04-29 08:06:04 -0700 |
commit | 3a2e7f47d71e1df86acc1dda6826890b6546a4e1 (patch) | |
tree | 3c5856f67af25a80a4d934e754f437936c7b1bbf /block/genhd.c | |
parent | cbd9b67bd3883dff0ef4b8ec9229d315a9ba38f0 (diff) |
binfmt_misc.c: avoid potential kernel stack overflow
This can be triggered with root help only, but...
Register the ":text:E::txt::/root/cat.txt:' rule in binfmt_misc (by root) and
try launching the cat.txt file (by anyone) :) The result is - the endless
recursion in the load_misc_binary -> open_exec -> load_misc_binary chain and
stack overflow.
There's a similar problem with binfmt_script, and there's a sh_bang memner on
linux_binprm structure to handle this, but simply raising this in binfmt_misc
may break some setups when the interpreter of some misc binaries is a script.
So the proposal is to turn sh_bang into a bit, add a new one (the misc_bang)
and raise it in load_misc_binary. After this, even if we set up the misc ->
script -> misc loop for binfmts one of them will step on its own bang and
exit.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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