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authorKees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>2012-10-19 13:56:51 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-10-19 14:07:47 -0700
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parentlinux/coredump.h needs asm/siginfo.h (diff)
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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 <pageexec@freemail.hu> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Cc: PaX Team <pageexec@freemail.hu> Cc: Brad Spengler <spender@grsecurity.net> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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