Re: Modprobe local root exploit

[Torsten Duwe <duwe@caldera.de>]

>>>>> "Chris" == Chris Evans <chris@scary.beasts.org> writes:

    Chris> What's wrong with isalnum() ?

Hm, must admit that I wasn't 100% sure if that's in the kernel lib or an evil
gcc expands it inline to some static array lookup. Now I see that it's
already in the kernel. Do some of you also sometimes wonder why the kernel is
so big ;-) ?

OK, so let's go for the isalnum() version, and don't forget to
#include <linux/ctype.h>
above...

	Torsten

For those who joined the program late here's the complete patch:

--- linux/kernel/kmod.c.orig	Tue Sep 26 01:18:55 2000
+++ linux/kernel/kmod.c	Mon Nov 13 19:09:11 2000
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 #include <linux/config.h>
 #include <linux/sched.h>
 #include <linux/unistd.h>
+#include <linux/ctype.h>
 #include <linux/smp_lock.h>
 
 #include <asm/uaccess.h>
@@ -168,6 +169,19 @@
 	static atomic_t kmod_concurrent = ATOMIC_INIT(0);
 #define MAX_KMOD_CONCURRENT 50	/* Completely arbitrary value - KAO */
 	static int kmod_loop_msg;
+	const char * p;
+
+	/* For security reasons ensure the requested name consists
+	 * only of allowed characters. Especially whitespace and
+	 * shell metacharacters might confuse modprobe.
+	 */
+	for (p = module_name; *p; p++)
+	{
+	  if (isalnum(*p) || *p == '_' || *p == '-')
+	    continue;
+
+	  return -EINVAL;
+	}
 
 	/* Don't allow request_module() before the root fs is mounted!  */
 	if ( ! current->fs->root ) {
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