CVE-2017-7616 (published 2017-04-10T14:59Z)

Incorrect error handling in the set_mempolicy and mbind compat syscalls in mm/mempolicy.c in the Linux kernel through 4.10.9 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from uninitialized stack data by triggering failure of a certain bitmap operation.

Severity: LOW
CVSS v2 base score: 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
CVSS v3 base score: 5.5, MEDIUM (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

Weakness information:
cwe_id: CWE-388
cwe_name: 7PK - Errors
description: This category represents one of the phyla in the Seven Pernicious Kingdoms vulnerability classification. It includes weaknesses that occur when an application does not properly handle errors that occur during processing. According to the authors of the Seven Pernicious Kingdoms, "Errors and error handling represent a class of API. Errors related to error handling are so common that they deserve a special kingdom of their own. As with 'API Abuse,' there are two ways to introduce an error-related security vulnerability: the most common one is handling errors poorly (or not at all). The second is producing errors that either give out too much information (to possible attackers) or are difficult to handle."

Fix information:
repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
commit_details: repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
author: Chris Salls
author_date: 2017-04-07 23:48:11-07:00
msg: mm/mempolicy.c: fix error handling in set_mempolicy and mbind.

In the case that compat_get_bitmap fails we do not want to copy the
bitmap to the user as it will contain uninitialized stack data and leak
sensitive data.

Signed-off-by: Chris Salls <salls@cs.ucsb.edu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.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: mempolicy.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -1529,7 +1529,6 @@ COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE5(get_mempolicy, int __user *, policy,
 COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE3(set_mempolicy, int, mode, compat_ulong_t __user *, nmask,
 		       compat_ulong_t, maxnode)
 {
-	long err = 0;
 	unsigned long __user *nm = NULL;
 	unsigned long nr_bits, alloc_size;
 	DECLARE_BITMAP(bm, MAX_NUMNODES);
@@ -1538,14 +1537,13 @@ COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE3(set_mempolicy, int, mode, compat_ulong_t __user *, nmask,
 	alloc_size = ALIGN(nr_bits, BITS_PER_LONG) / 8;
 
 	if (nmask) {
-		err = compat_get_bitmap(bm, nmask, nr_bits);
+		if (compat_get_bitmap(bm, nmask, nr_bits))
+			return -EFAULT;
 		nm = compat_alloc_user_space(alloc_size);
-		err |= copy_to_user(nm, bm, alloc_size);
+		if (copy_to_user(nm, bm, alloc_size))
+			return -EFAULT;
 	}
 
-	if (err)
-		return -EFAULT;
-
 	return sys_set_mempolicy(mode, nm, nr_bits+1);
 }
 
@@ -1553,7 +1551,6 @@ COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE6(mbind, compat_ulong_t, start, compat_ulong_t, len,
 		       compat_ulong_t, mode, compat_ulong_t __user *, nmask,
 		       compat_ulong_t, maxnode, compat_ulong_t, flags)
 {
-	long err = 0;
 	unsigned long __user *nm = NULL;
 	unsigned long nr_bits, alloc_size;
 	nodemask_t bm;
@@ -1562,14 +1559,13 @@ COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE6(mbind, compat_ulong_t, start, compat_ulong_t, len,
 	alloc_size = ALIGN(nr_bits, BITS_PER_LONG) / 8;
 
 	if (nmask) {
-		err = compat_get_bitmap(nodes_addr(bm), nmask, nr_bits);
+		if (compat_get_bitmap(nodes_addr(bm), nmask, nr_bits))
+			return -EFAULT;
 		nm = compat_alloc_user_space(alloc_size);
-		err |= copy_to_user(nm, nodes_addr(bm), alloc_size);
+		if (copy_to_user(nm, nodes_addr(bm), alloc_size))
+			return -EFAULT;
 	}
 
-	if (err)
-		return -EFAULT;
-
 	return sys_mbind(start, len, mode, nm, nr_bits+1, flags);
 }
 

programming_language: C