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CVE request - kernel: futex: Handle user space corruption gracefully
From: Eugene Teo <eugeneteo () kernel sg>
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:58:24 +0800
Description of the issue: "If the owner of a PI futex dies we fix up the pi_state and set pi_state->owner to NULL. When a malicious or just sloppy programmed user space application sets the futex value to 0 e.g. by calling pthread_mutex_init(), then the futex can be acquired again. A new waiter manages to enqueue itself on the pi_state w/o damage, but on unlock the kernel dereferences pi_state->owner and oopses.
Prevent this by checking pi_state->owner in the unlock path. If pi_state->owner is not current we know that user space manipulated the futex value. Ignore the mess and return -EINVAL.
This catches the above case and also the case where a task hijacks the futex by setting the tid value and then tries to unlock it."
Upstream commit: http://git.kernel.org/linus/51246bfd189064079c54421507236fd2723b18f3 Note that pi-futex was introduced in: http://git.kernel.org/linus/c87e2837be82df479a6bae9f155c43516d2feebc Reference: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=563091 Thanks, Eugene
Current thread:
- CVE request - kernel: futex: Handle user space corruption gracefully Eugene Teo (Feb 08)
- Re: CVE request - kernel: futex: Handle user space corruption gracefully Steven M. Christey (Feb 11)