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alpha: fix several security issues
authorDan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>
Wed, 15 Jun 2011 22:09:01 +0000 (15:09 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Mon, 8 Aug 2011 17:36:08 +0000 (10:36 -0700)
commit20e25df086ca0a450479bfe7c24b4f4b5b3f6dab
tree779ab219aff04f5abcc9345a8871d2d0dfd193e6
parentdcaf8e29487ed3a66e20fa061941a61ce7689889
alpha: fix several security issues

commit 21c5977a836e399fc710ff2c5367845ed5c2527f upstream.

Fix several security issues in Alpha-specific syscalls.  Untested, but
mostly trivial.

1. Signedness issue in osf_getdomainname allows copying out-of-bounds
kernel memory to userland.

2. Signedness issue in osf_sysinfo allows copying large amounts of
kernel memory to userland.

3. Typo (?) in osf_getsysinfo bounds minimum instead of maximum copy
size, allowing copying large amounts of kernel memory to userland.

4. Usage of user pointer in osf_wait4 while under KERNEL_DS allows
privilege escalation via writing return value of sys_wait4 to kernel
memory.

Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@vsecurity.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
arch/alpha/kernel/osf_sys.c