From 23567fd052a9abb6d67fe8e7a9ccdd9800a540f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yevgeny Pats Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2016 22:09:04 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] KEYS: Fix keyring ref leak in join_session_keyring() This fixes CVE-2016-0728. If a thread is asked to join as a session keyring the keyring that's already set as its session, we leak a keyring reference. This can be tested with the following program: #include #include #include #include int main(int argc, const char *argv[]) { int i = 0; key_serial_t serial; serial = keyctl(KEYCTL_JOIN_SESSION_KEYRING, "leaked-keyring"); if (serial < 0) { perror("keyctl"); return -1; } if (keyctl(KEYCTL_SETPERM, serial, KEY_POS_ALL | KEY_USR_ALL) < 0) { perror("keyctl"); return -1; } for (i = 0; i < 100; i++) { serial = keyctl(KEYCTL_JOIN_SESSION_KEYRING, "leaked-keyring"); if (serial < 0) { perror("keyctl"); return -1; } } return 0; } If, after the program has run, there something like the following line in /proc/keys: 3f3d898f I--Q--- 100 perm 3f3f0000 0 0 keyring leaked-keyring: empty with a usage count of 100 * the number of times the program has been run, then the kernel is malfunctioning. If leaked-keyring has zero usages or has been garbage collected, then the problem is fixed. Reported-by: Yevgeny Pats Signed-off-by: David Howells Acked-by: Don Zickus Acked-by: Prarit Bhargava Acked-by: Jarod Wilson Signed-off-by: James Morris --- security/keys/process_keys.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/security/keys/process_keys.c b/security/keys/process_keys.c index a3f85d2a00bb..e6d50172872f 100644 --- a/security/keys/process_keys.c +++ b/security/keys/process_keys.c @@ -794,6 +794,7 @@ long join_session_keyring(const char *name) ret = PTR_ERR(keyring); goto error2; } else if (keyring == new->session_keyring) { + key_put(keyring); ret = 0; goto error2; } -- 2.20.1