[PATCH 3.19 113/175] tty: Prevent untrappable signals from malicious program

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2015-03-04T06:21:21Z

From: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>

commit 37480a05685ed5b8e1b9bf5e5c53b5810258b149 upstream.

Commit 26df6d13406d1a5 ("tty: Add EXTPROC support for LINEMODE")
allows a process which has opened a pty master to send _any_ signal
to the process group of the pty slave. Although potentially
exploitable by a malicious program running a setuid program on
a pty slave, it's unknown if this exploit currently exists.

Limit to signals actually used.

Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>
Cc: One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
drivers/tty/pty.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/tty/pty.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/pty.c
@@ -210,6 +210,9 @@ static int pty_signal(struct tty_struct
{
struct pid *pgrp;

+ if (sig != SIGINT && sig != SIGQUIT && sig != SIGTSTP)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
if (tty->link) {
pgrp = tty_get_pgrp(tty->link);
if (pgrp)