When the new signal handlers are set up for a fork, the location of sa_restorer is not cleared, leaking a parent process's address space location to children. This allows for a potential bypass of the parent's ASLR by examining the sa_restorer value returned when calling sigaction().
$ cat /proc/$$/maps ... 7fb9f3083000-7fb9f3238000 r-xp 00000000 fd:01 404469 .../libc-2.15.so ... $ ./leak ... 7f278bc74000-7f278be29000 r-xp 00000000 fd:01 404469 .../libc-2.15.so ... 1 0 (nil) 0x7fb9f30b94a0 2 4000000 (nil) 0x7f278bcaa4a0 3 4000000 (nil) 0x7f278bcaa4a0 4 0 (nil) 0x7fb9f30b94a0 ... Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keesc...@chromium.org> Reported-by: Emese Revfy <re.em...@gmail.com> Cc: Emese Revfy <re.em...@gmail.com> Cc: PaX Team <pagee...@freemail.hu> Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org --- kernel/signal.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/signal.c b/kernel/signal.c index 2ec870a..8c8e3ca 100644 --- a/kernel/signal.c +++ b/kernel/signal.c @@ -485,6 +485,9 @@ flush_signal_handlers(struct task_struct *t, int force_default) if (force_default || ka->sa.sa_handler != SIG_IGN) ka->sa.sa_handler = SIG_DFL; ka->sa.sa_flags = 0; +#ifdef __ARCH_HAS_SA_RESTORER + ka->sa.sa_restorer = NULL; +#endif sigemptyset(&ka->sa.sa_mask); ka++; } -- 1.7.9.5 -- Kees Cook Chrome OS Security -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/