Skip to content
Snippets Groups Projects
Commit 14f81062 authored by Ben Hutchings's avatar Ben Hutchings Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
Browse files

pipe: iovec: Fix memory corruption when retrying atomic copy as non-atomic

pipe_iov_copy_{from,to}_user() may be tried twice with the same iovec,
the first time atomically and the second time not.  The second attempt
needs to continue from the iovec position, pipe buffer offset and
remaining length where the first attempt failed, but currently the
pipe buffer offset and remaining length are reset.  This will corrupt
the piped data (possibly also leading to an information leak between
processes) and may also corrupt kernel memory.

This was fixed upstream by commits f0d1bec9 ("new helper:
copy_page_from_iter()") and 637b58c2 ("switch pipe_read() to
copy_page_to_iter()"), but those aren't suitable for stable.  This fix
for older kernel versions was made by Seth Jennings for RHEL and I
have extracted it from their update.

CVE-2015-1805

References: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1202855


Signed-off-by: default avatarBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent 97d905e8
Branches
Tags
No related merge requests found
Loading
0% Loading or .
You are about to add 0 people to the discussion. Proceed with caution.
Please register or to comment