{2.6.22.y} CVE-2007-6434

From: Oliver Pinter
Date: Mon Feb 04 2008 - 15:13:31 EST


mainline: ecaf18c15aac8bb9bed7b7aa0e382fe252e275d5

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commit ecaf18c15aac8bb9bed7b7aa0e382fe252e275d5
Author: Eric Paris <eparis@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue Dec 4 23:45:31 2007 -0800

VM/Security: add security hook to do_brk

Given a specifically crafted binary do_brk() can be used to get low pages
available in userspace virtual memory and can thus be used to circumvent
the mmap_min_addr low memory protection. Add security checks in do_brk().

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@xxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/mm/mmap.c b/mm/mmap.c
index facc1a7..acfc13f 100644
--- a/mm/mmap.c
+++ b/mm/mmap.c
@@ -1934,6 +1934,10 @@ unsigned long do_brk(unsigned long addr, unsigned long le
if (is_hugepage_only_range(mm, addr, len))
return -EINVAL;

+ error = security_file_mmap(0, 0, 0, 0, addr, 1);
+ if (error)
+ return error;
+
flags = VM_DATA_DEFAULT_FLAGS | VM_ACCOUNT | mm->def_flags;

error = arch_mmap_check(addr, len, flags);
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Thanks,
Oliver
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