CVE-2013-3301 (published 2013-04-29T14:55Z)

The ftrace implementation in the Linux kernel before 3.8.8 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging the CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability for write access to the (1) set_ftrace_pid or (2) set_graph_function file, and then making an lseek system call.

Severity: HIGH
CVSS v2 base score: 7.2 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

Weakness information:
cwe_id: NVD-CWE-Other
cwe_name: Other
description: NVD is only using a subset of CWE for mapping instead of the entire CWE, and the weakness type is not covered by that subset.
extended_description: Insufficient Information

Fix information:
repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
commit_details: repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
author: Namhyung Kim
author_date: 2013-04-11 15:55:01+09:00
msg: tracing: Fix possible NULL pointer dereferences

Currently set_ftrace_pid and set_graph_function files use seq_lseek
for their fops.  However seq_open() is called only for FMODE_READ in
the fops->open() so that if an user tries to seek one of those file
when she open it for writing, it sees NULL seq_file and then panic.

It can be easily reproduced with following command:

  $ cd /sys/kernel/debug/tracing
  $ echo 1234 | sudo tee -a set_ftrace_pid

In this example, GNU coreutils' tee opens the file with fopen(, "a")
and then the fopen() internally calls lseek().

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1365663302-2170-1-git-send-email-namhyung@kernel.org

Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung.kim@lge.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
repository: repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
repo_name: torvalds/linux
description: Linux kernel source tree
repo_language: C
owner: torvalds
file_changes: filename: ftrace.h
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -396,7 +396,7 @@ ssize_t ftrace_filter_write(struct file *file, const char __user *ubuf,
 			    size_t cnt, loff_t *ppos);
 ssize_t ftrace_notrace_write(struct file *file, const char __user *ubuf,
 			     size_t cnt, loff_t *ppos);
-loff_t ftrace_regex_lseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int whence);
+loff_t ftrace_filter_lseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int whence);
 int ftrace_regex_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file);
 
 void __init

programming_language: C
filename: ftrace.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -2697,7 +2697,7 @@ ftrace_notrace_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
 }
 
 loff_t
-ftrace_regex_lseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int whence)
+ftrace_filter_lseek(struct file *file, loff_t offset, int whence)
 {
 	loff_t ret;
 
@@ -3570,7 +3570,7 @@ static const struct file_operations ftrace_filter_fops = {
 	.open = ftrace_filter_open,
 	.read = seq_read,
 	.write = ftrace_filter_write,
-	.llseek = ftrace_regex_lseek,
+	.llseek = ftrace_filter_lseek,
 	.release = ftrace_regex_release,
 };
 
@@ -3578,7 +3578,7 @@ static const struct file_operations ftrace_notrace_fops = {
 	.open = ftrace_notrace_open,
 	.read = seq_read,
 	.write = ftrace_notrace_write,
-	.llseek = ftrace_regex_lseek,
+	.llseek = ftrace_filter_lseek,
 	.release = ftrace_regex_release,
 };
 
@@ -3783,8 +3783,8 @@ static const struct file_operations ftrace_graph_fops = {
 	.open		= ftrace_graph_open,
 	.read		= seq_read,
 	.write		= ftrace_graph_write,
+	.llseek		= ftrace_filter_lseek,
 	.release	= ftrace_graph_release,
-	.llseek		= seq_lseek,
 };
 #endif /* CONFIG_FUNCTION_GRAPH_TRACER */
 
@@ -4439,7 +4439,7 @@ static const struct file_operations ftrace_pid_fops = {
 	.open		= ftrace_pid_open,
 	.write		= ftrace_pid_write,
 	.read		= seq_read,
-	.llseek		= seq_lseek,
+	.llseek		= ftrace_filter_lseek,
 	.release	= ftrace_pid_release,
 };
 

programming_language: C
filename: trace_stack.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -322,7 +322,7 @@ static const struct file_operations stack_trace_filter_fops = {
 	.open = stack_trace_filter_open,
 	.read = seq_read,
 	.write = ftrace_filter_write,
-	.llseek = ftrace_regex_lseek,
+	.llseek = ftrace_filter_lseek,
 	.release = ftrace_regex_release,
 };
 

programming_language: C