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authorMarcin Koƛcielnicki <mwk@0x04.net>2019-11-21 00:20:15 +0100
committerFlorian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>2019-11-22 13:40:07 +0100
commit4d5cfeb510125345cb41431afc9022492994cffa (patch)
tree52d2d51829353010062b266ae4b3e0a1055ceb17
parent92f04eedb50dc12643addbcb033a06b51633d0ff (diff)
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rtld: Check __libc_enable_secure before honoring LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC (CVE-2019-19126) [BZ #25204]
The problem was introduced in glibc 2.23, in commit
b9eb92ab05204df772eb4929eccd018637c9f3e9
("Add Prefer_MAP_32BIT_EXEC to map executable pages with MAP_32BIT").

(cherry picked from commit d5dfad4326fc683c813df1e37bbf5cf920591c8e)
-rw-r--r--NEWS7
-rw-r--r--sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/64/dl-librecon.h3
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index dfb4962db7..03c49fe5c4 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -67,6 +67,12 @@ Security related changes:
   memcmp gave the wrong result since it treated the size argument as
   zero.  Reported by H.J. Lu.
 
+  CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
+  environment variable during program execution after a security
+  transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
+  addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
+  program.  Reported by Marcin Koƛcielnicki.
+
 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
 
   [6889] 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
@@ -145,6 +151,7 @@ The following bugs are resolved with this release:
   [24228] old x86 applications that use legacy libio crash on exit
   [24531] Malloc tunables give tcache assertion failures
   [24744] io: Remove the copy_file_range emulation
+  [25204] Ignore LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC for SUID programs
 
 
 Version 2.27
diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/64/dl-librecon.h b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/64/dl-librecon.h
index 194369174d..ac694c032e 100644
--- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/64/dl-librecon.h
+++ b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/64/dl-librecon.h
@@ -31,7 +31,8 @@
    environment variable, LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC.  */
 #define EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS \
   case 21:								  \
-    if (memcmp (envline, "PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC", 21) == 0)		  \
+    if (!__libc_enable_secure						  \
+	&& memcmp (envline, "PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC", 21) == 0)		  \
       GLRO(dl_x86_cpu_features).feature[index_arch_Prefer_MAP_32BIT_EXEC] \
 	|= bit_arch_Prefer_MAP_32BIT_EXEC;				  \
     break;