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    personality: fix PER_CLEAR_ON_SETID · f9fabcb5
    Julien Tinnes authored
    
    
    We have found that the current PER_CLEAR_ON_SETID mask on Linux doesn't
    include neither ADDR_COMPAT_LAYOUT, nor MMAP_PAGE_ZERO.
    
    The current mask is READ_IMPLIES_EXEC|ADDR_NO_RANDOMIZE.
    
    We believe it is important to add MMAP_PAGE_ZERO, because by using this
    personality it is possible to have the first page mapped inside a
    process running as setuid root.  This could be used in those scenarios:
    
     - Exploiting a NULL pointer dereference issue in a setuid root binary
     - Bypassing the mmap_min_addr restrictions of the Linux kernel: by
       running a setuid binary that would drop privileges before giving us
       control back (for instance by loading a user-supplied library), we
       could get the first page mapped in a process we control.  By further
       using mremap and mprotect on this mapping, we can then completely
       bypass the mmap_min_addr restrictions.
    
    Less importantly, we believe ADDR_COMPAT_LAYOUT should also be added
    since on x86 32bits it will in practice disable most of the address
    space layout randomization (only the stack will remain randomized).
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJulien Tinnes <jt@cr0.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarTavis Ormandy <taviso@sdf.lonestar.org>
    Cc: stable@kernel.org
    Acked-by: default avatarChristoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
    Acked-by: default avatarKees Cook <kees@ubuntu.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarEugene Teo <eugene@redhat.com>
    [ Shortened lines and fixed whitespace as per Christophs' suggestion ]
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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