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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2007-12-17 21:17:56 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2008-02-08 12:01:34 -0800
commitb3794fe0f120694d0085316346d679f481966427 (patch)
tree04b5803fc13b112be4d1dd4c742fcb5e87dfb7c7
parentb98ebe01754d083dbdfe7bd3cd46fa2106fad4ef (diff)
vfs: coredumping fix (CVE-2007-6206)
vfs: coredumping fix patch c46f739dd39db3b07ab5deb4e3ec81e1c04a91af in mainline fix: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3043 only allow coredumping to the same uid that the coredumping task runs under. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: maximilian attems <max@stro.at> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
-rw-r--r--fs/exec.c6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
index 073b0b8c6d05..401b850d0121 100644
--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -1786,6 +1786,12 @@ int do_coredump(long signr, int exit_code, struct pt_regs * regs)
but keep the previous behaviour for now. */
if (!ispipe && !S_ISREG(inode->i_mode))
goto close_fail;
+ /*
+ * Dont allow local users get cute and trick others to coredump
+ * into their pre-created files:
+ */
+ if (inode->i_uid != current->fsuid)
+ goto close_fail;
if (!file->f_op)
goto close_fail;
if (!file->f_op->write)