Re: kernel: tmpfs use-after-free

[Kurt Seifried <kseifried () redhat com>]

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On 02/25/2013 12:50 PM, Jason A. Donenfeld wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> While everyone's going wild hndl->dump'ing with CVE-2013-1763,
> there's apparently been another silent security fix with 
> 5f00110f7273f9ff04ac69a5f85bb535a4fd0987 [1]:
>
> > tmpfs: fix use-after-free of mempolicy object
> >
> > The tmpfs remount logic preserves filesystem mempolicy if the
> > mpol=M option is not specified in the remount request.  A new
> > policy can be specified if mpol=M is given.
> >
> > Before this patch remounting an mpol bound tmpfs without
> > specifying mpol= mount option in the remount request would set
> > the filesystem's mempolicy object to a freed mempolicy object.
> >
> > How far back does this issue go? I see it in both 2.6.36 and 3.3.
> > I did not look back further.
>
>
> The commit message goes on with details on how to trigger it. Note 
> that as of 5eaf563e53294d6696e651466697eb9d491f3946 [2], you can
> now mount filesystems as an unprivileged user after a call to 
> unshare(CLONE_NEWUSER | CLONE_NEWNS), or a similar clone(2) call.
> This means all those random random filesystem bugs you have laying
> around in the junk bin are now quite useful. ++tricks;
>
> Cheers, Jason
>
>
> [1]
> http://git.zx2c4.com/linux/commit/?id=5f00110f7273f9ff04ac69a5f85bb535a4fd0987
[2]
http://git.zx2c4.com/linux/commit/?id=5eaf563e53294d6696e651466697eb9d491f3946
> -- Jason A. Donenfeld www.zx2c4.com

Please use CVE-2013-1767 for this issue.

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Kurt Seifried Red Hat Security Response Team (SRT)
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