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KEYS: Change the name of the dead type to ".dead" to prevent user access
authorDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Tue, 18 Apr 2017 14:31:08 +0000 (15:31 +0100)
committerDavid Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Tue, 18 Apr 2017 14:31:39 +0000 (15:31 +0100)
commit1cb41df9793550b2d2d74a2e2d60dac97a592bc4
tree31ff05d7310b95fbf992b0c3cf328a5e6b0eba83
parentf1251523b5af3c86b199ad8d3b76b69bf9fe998b
KEYS: Change the name of the dead type to ".dead" to prevent user access

This fixes CVE-2017-6951.

Userspace should not be able to do things with the "dead" key type as it
doesn't have some of the helper functions set upon it that the kernel
needs.  Attempting to use it may cause the kernel to crash.

Fix this by changing the name of the type to ".dead" so that it's rejected
up front on userspace syscalls by key_get_type_from_user().

Though this doesn't seem to affect recent kernels, it does affect older
ones, certainly those prior to:

commit e2fd6bdc9661305f4787edb4ac9486407075c00d
Author: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Date:   Tue Sep 16 17:36:06 2014 +0100
KEYS: Remove key_type::match in favour of overriding default by match_preparse

which went in before 3.18-rc1.

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
security/keys/gc.c