[patch 08/23] Handle bogus %cs selector in single-step instruction decoding (CVE-2007-3731)

Greg KH
2008-02-22T21:47:16Z

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2.6.22-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us
know.

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From: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>

Handle bogus %cs selector in single-step instruction decoding

mainline: 29eb51101c02df517ca64ec472d7501127ad1da8

The code for LDT segment selectors was not robust in the face of a bogus
selector set in %cs via ptrace before the single-step was done.

Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
CC: Oliver Pinter <oliver.pntr@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

---
arch/i386/kernel/ptrace.c | 22 +++++++++++++++-------
arch/x86_64/kernel/ptrace.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++-------
2 files changed, 31 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)

--- a/arch/i386/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/i386/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -164,14 +164,22 @@ static unsigned long convert_eip_to_line
u32 *desc;
unsigned long base;

- down(&child->mm->context.sem);
- desc = child->mm->context.ldt + (seg & ~7);
- base = (desc[0] >> 16) | ((desc[1] & 0xff) << 16) | (desc[1] & 0xff000000);
+ seg &= ~7UL;

- /* 16-bit code segment? */
- if (!((desc[1] >> 22) & 1))
- addr &= 0xffff;
- addr += base;
+ down(&child->mm->context.sem);
+ if (unlikely((seg >> 3) >= child->mm->context.size))
+ addr = -1L; /* bogus selector, access would fault */
+ else {
+ desc = child->mm->context.ldt + seg;
+ base = ((desc[0] >> 16) |
+ ((desc[1] & 0xff) << 16) |
+ (desc[1] & 0xff000000));
+
+ /* 16-bit code segment? */
+ if (!((desc[1] >> 22) & 1))
+ addr &= 0xffff;
+ addr += base;
+ }
up(&child->mm->context.sem);
}
return addr;
--- a/arch/x86_64/kernel/ptrace.c
+++ b/arch/x86_64/kernel/ptrace.c
@@ -102,16 +102,25 @@ unsigned long convert_rip_to_linear(stru
u32 *desc;
unsigned long base;

- down(&child->mm->context.sem);
- desc = child->mm->context.ldt + (seg & ~7);
- base = (desc[0] >> 16) | ((desc[1] & 0xff) << 16) | (desc[1] & 0xff000000);
+ seg &= ~7UL;

- /* 16-bit code segment? */
- if (!((desc[1] >> 22) & 1))
- addr &= 0xffff;
- addr += base;
+ down(&child->mm->context.sem);
+ if (unlikely((seg >> 3) >= child->mm->context.size))
+ addr = -1L; /* bogus selector, access would fault */
+ else {
+ desc = child->mm->context.ldt + seg;
+ base = ((desc[0] >> 16) |
+ ((desc[1] & 0xff) << 16) |
+ (desc[1] & 0xff000000));
+
+ /* 16-bit code segment? */
+ if (!((desc[1] >> 22) & 1))
+ addr &= 0xffff;
+ addr += base;
+ }
up(&child->mm->context.sem);
}
+
return addr;
}

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