Re: CVE request - kernel: infoleak if print-fatal-signals=1

[Josh Bressers <bressers () redhat com>]

Please use CVE-2010-0003 for this.

Thanks.

-- 
    JB


----- "Eugene Teo" <eugene () redhat com> wrote:

> Description from the upstream patch:
> When print-fatal-signals is enabled it's possible to dump any memory 
> reachable by the kernel to the log by simply jumping to that address 
> from user space.
>
> Or crash the system if there's some hardware with read side effects.
>
> The fatal signals handler will dump 16 bytes at the execution address,
>
> which is fully controlled by ring 3.
>
> In addition when something jumps to an unmapped address there will be
> up 
> to 16 additional useless page faults, which might be potentially slow
>
> (and at least is not very efficient)
>
> Fortunately this option is off by default and only there on i386.
>
> But fix it by hecking for kernel addresses and also stopping when 
> there's a page fault.
>
> References:
> http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/69752/
> http://git.kernel.org/linus/b45c6e76bc2c72f6426c14bed64fdcbc9bf37cb0
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=554578
>
> Thanks, Eugene
> -- 
> Eugene Teo / Red Hat Security Response Team