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* arm64/mm: Remove hack in mmap randomize layout
@ 2015-07-13 15:07 Matthias Brugger
  2015-07-15  9:54 ` Yann Droneaud
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From: Matthias Brugger @ 2015-07-13 15:07 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: stable; +Cc: Will Deacon, Yann Droneaud

Hi all,

Commit d6c763afab14 "arm64/mm: Remove hack in mmap randomize layout" fixes a 
security issue which reduces the entropy for mmap base address by half [1]. 
A attempt to guess where the stack is mapped via brute-force needs just half 
the attempts.

I found this patch was added to v3.19-rc1 but should be added as well to:
v3.18, v3.14, v3.12 and v3.10

Best regards,
Matthias Brugger

[1] http://hmarco.org/bugs/linux-ASLR-reducing-mmap-by-half.html

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* Re: arm64/mm: Remove hack in mmap randomize layout
  2015-07-13 15:07 arm64/mm: Remove hack in mmap randomize layout Matthias Brugger
@ 2015-07-15  9:54 ` Yann Droneaud
  2015-07-21 13:55 ` Jiri Slaby
  2015-09-11 22:27 ` Greg KH
  2 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Yann Droneaud @ 2015-07-15  9:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: stable; +Cc: Will Deacon, Matthias Brugger

Hi,

Le lundi 13 juillet 2015 à 17:07 +0200, Matthias Brugger a écrit :
> 
> Commit d6c763afab14 "arm64/mm: Remove hack in mmap randomize layout" 
> fixes a security issue which reduces the entropy for mmap base 
> address by half [1].
> A attempt to guess where the stack is mapped via brute-force needs 
> just half the attempts.
> 
> I found this patch was added to v3.19-rc1 but should be added as well 
> to:
> v3.18, v3.14, v3.12 and v3.10
> 

I agree.

The issue fixed by commit d6c763afab142a85e4770b4bc2a5f40f256d5c5d is
present since v3.7-rc1.

> [1] http://hmarco.org/bugs/linux-ASLR-reducing-mmap-by-half.html

Regards.

-- 
Yann Droneaud
OPTEYA



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* Re: arm64/mm: Remove hack in mmap randomize layout
  2015-07-13 15:07 arm64/mm: Remove hack in mmap randomize layout Matthias Brugger
  2015-07-15  9:54 ` Yann Droneaud
@ 2015-07-21 13:55 ` Jiri Slaby
  2015-09-11 22:27 ` Greg KH
  2 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Jiri Slaby @ 2015-07-21 13:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: mbrugger, stable; +Cc: Will Deacon, Yann Droneaud

On 07/13/2015, 05:07 PM, Matthias Brugger wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Commit d6c763afab14 "arm64/mm: Remove hack in mmap randomize layout" fixes a 
> security issue which reduces the entropy for mmap base address by half [1]. 
> A attempt to guess where the stack is mapped via brute-force needs just half 
> the attempts.
> 
> I found this patch was added to v3.19-rc1 but should be added as well to:
> v3.18, v3.14, v3.12 and v3.10

Applied to 3.12. Thanks.

-- 
js
suse labs

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* Re: arm64/mm: Remove hack in mmap randomize layout
  2015-07-13 15:07 arm64/mm: Remove hack in mmap randomize layout Matthias Brugger
  2015-07-15  9:54 ` Yann Droneaud
  2015-07-21 13:55 ` Jiri Slaby
@ 2015-09-11 22:27 ` Greg KH
  2 siblings, 0 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Greg KH @ 2015-09-11 22:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Matthias Brugger; +Cc: stable, Will Deacon, Yann Droneaud

On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 05:07:54PM +0200, Matthias Brugger wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Commit d6c763afab14 "arm64/mm: Remove hack in mmap randomize layout" fixes a 
> security issue which reduces the entropy for mmap base address by half [1]. 
> A attempt to guess where the stack is mapped via brute-force needs just half 
> the attempts.
> 
> I found this patch was added to v3.19-rc1 but should be added as well to:
> v3.18, v3.14, v3.12 and v3.10

Thanks, now queued up for some of those.

greg k-h

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