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proc: restrict access to /proc/PID/io
authorVasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Fri, 24 Jun 2011 12:08:38 +0000 (16:08 +0400)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Mon, 8 Aug 2011 17:23:19 +0000 (10:23 -0700)
commitfc10e555b21481e5f9ccbf9b4dc804140e556a04
treeeab0ee487e5cb3c805c7cf17b3ea90a33c41e264
parent2beffeba8046011cf87062b842327328fb22cda7
proc: restrict access to /proc/PID/io

commit 1d1221f375c94ef961ba8574ac4f85c8870ddd51 upstream.

/proc/PID/io may be used for gathering private information.  E.g.  for
openssh and vsftpd daemons wchars/rchars may be used to learn the
precise password length.  Restrict it to processes being able to ptrace
the target process.

ptrace_may_access() is needed to prevent keeping open file descriptor of
"io" file, executing setuid binary and gathering io information of the
setuid'ed process.

Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@openwall.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
fs/proc/base.c