svn commit: r197711 - head/sys/kern
Bjoern A. Zeeb
bz at FreeBSD.org
Fri Oct 2 17:48:52 UTC 2009
Author: bz
Date: Fri Oct 2 17:48:51 2009
New Revision: 197711
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/197711
Log:
Add a mitigation feature that will prevent user mappings at
virtual address 0, limiting the ability to convert a kernel
NULL pointer dereference into a privilege escalation attack.
If the sysctl is set to 0 a newly started process will not be able
to map anything in the address range of the first page (0 to PAGE_SIZE).
This is the default. Already running processes are not affected by this.
You can either change the sysctl or the tunable from loader in case
you need to map at a virtual address of 0, for example when running
any of the extinct species of a set of a.out binaries, vm86 emulation, ..
In that case set security.bsd.map_at_zero="1".
Superseeds: r197537
In collaboration with: jhb, kib, alc
Modified:
head/sys/kern/init_main.c
head/sys/kern/kern_exec.c
Modified: head/sys/kern/init_main.c
==============================================================================
--- head/sys/kern/init_main.c Fri Oct 2 17:39:23 2009 (r197710)
+++ head/sys/kern/init_main.c Fri Oct 2 17:48:51 2009 (r197711)
@@ -505,6 +505,11 @@ proc0_init(void *dummy __unused)
pmap_pinit0(vmspace_pmap(&vmspace0));
p->p_vmspace = &vmspace0;
vmspace0.vm_refcnt = 1;
+
+ /*
+ * proc0 is not expected to enter usermode, so there is no special
+ * handling for sv_minuser here, like is done for exec_new_vmspace().
+ */
vm_map_init(&vmspace0.vm_map, p->p_sysent->sv_minuser,
p->p_sysent->sv_maxuser);
vmspace0.vm_map.pmap = vmspace_pmap(&vmspace0);
Modified: head/sys/kern/kern_exec.c
==============================================================================
--- head/sys/kern/kern_exec.c Fri Oct 2 17:39:23 2009 (r197710)
+++ head/sys/kern/kern_exec.c Fri Oct 2 17:48:51 2009 (r197711)
@@ -122,6 +122,11 @@ u_long ps_arg_cache_limit = PAGE_SIZE /
SYSCTL_ULONG(_kern, OID_AUTO, ps_arg_cache_limit, CTLFLAG_RW,
&ps_arg_cache_limit, 0, "");
+static int map_at_zero = 0;
+TUNABLE_INT("security.bsd.map_at_zero", &map_at_zero);
+SYSCTL_INT(_security_bsd, OID_AUTO, map_at_zero, CTLFLAG_RW, &map_at_zero, 0,
+ "Permit processes to map an object at virtual address 0.");
+
static int
sysctl_kern_ps_strings(SYSCTL_HANDLER_ARGS)
{
@@ -999,7 +1004,7 @@ exec_new_vmspace(imgp, sv)
int error;
struct proc *p = imgp->proc;
struct vmspace *vmspace = p->p_vmspace;
- vm_offset_t stack_addr;
+ vm_offset_t sv_minuser, stack_addr;
vm_map_t map;
u_long ssiz;
@@ -1015,13 +1020,17 @@ exec_new_vmspace(imgp, sv)
* not disrupted
*/
map = &vmspace->vm_map;
- if (vmspace->vm_refcnt == 1 && vm_map_min(map) == sv->sv_minuser &&
+ if (map_at_zero)
+ sv_minuser = sv->sv_minuser;
+ else
+ sv_minuser = MAX(sv->sv_minuser, PAGE_SIZE);
+ if (vmspace->vm_refcnt == 1 && vm_map_min(map) == sv_minuser &&
vm_map_max(map) == sv->sv_maxuser) {
shmexit(vmspace);
pmap_remove_pages(vmspace_pmap(vmspace));
vm_map_remove(map, vm_map_min(map), vm_map_max(map));
} else {
- error = vmspace_exec(p, sv->sv_minuser, sv->sv_maxuser);
+ error = vmspace_exec(p, sv_minuser, sv->sv_maxuser);
if (error)
return (error);
vmspace = p->p_vmspace;
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