From 5096add84b9e96e2e0a9c72675c442fe5433388a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kees Cook Date: Tue, 8 May 2007 00:26:04 -0700 Subject: proc: maps protection The /proc/pid/ "maps", "smaps", and "numa_maps" files contain sensitive information about the memory location and usage of processes. Issues: - maps should not be world-readable, especially if programs expect any kind of ASLR protection from local attackers. - maps cannot just be 0400 because "-D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -O2" makes glibc check the maps when %n is in a *printf call, and a setuid(getuid()) process wouldn't be able to read its own maps file. (For reference see http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/22/150) - a system-wide toggle is needed to allow prior behavior in the case of non-root applications that depend on access to the maps contents. This change implements a check using "ptrace_may_attach" before allowing access to read the maps contents. To control this protection, the new knob /proc/sys/kernel/maps_protect has been added, with corresponding updates to the procfs documentation. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: New sysctl numbers are old hat] Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Cc: Arjan van de Ven Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- kernel/sysctl.c | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+) (limited to 'kernel') diff --git a/kernel/sysctl.c b/kernel/sysctl.c index c904748f229..f0664bd5011 100644 --- a/kernel/sysctl.c +++ b/kernel/sysctl.c @@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ extern int pid_max_min, pid_max_max; extern int sysctl_drop_caches; extern int percpu_pagelist_fraction; extern int compat_log; +extern int maps_protect; /* this is needed for the proc_dointvec_minmax for [fs_]overflow UID and GID */ static int maxolduid = 65535; @@ -603,6 +604,16 @@ static ctl_table kern_table[] = { .proc_handler = &proc_dointvec, }, #endif +#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS + { + .ctl_name = CTL_UNNUMBERED, + .procname = "maps_protect", + .data = &maps_protect, + .maxlen = sizeof(int), + .mode = 0644, + .proc_handler = &proc_dointvec, + }, +#endif { .ctl_name = 0 } }; -- cgit v1.2.3