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Commit 8c01db76 authored by Eric Biggers's avatar Eric Biggers Committed by Jiri Kosina
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HID: uhid: forbid UHID_CREATE under KERNEL_DS or elevated privileges



When a UHID_CREATE command is written to the uhid char device, a
copy_from_user() is done from a user pointer embedded in the command.
When the address limit is KERNEL_DS, e.g. as is the case during
sys_sendfile(), this can read from kernel memory.  Alternatively,
information can be leaked from a setuid binary that is tricked to write
to the file descriptor.  Therefore, forbid UHID_CREATE in these cases.

No other commands in uhid_char_write() are affected by this bug and
UHID_CREATE is marked as "obsolete", so apply the restriction to
UHID_CREATE only rather than to uhid_char_write() entirely.

Thanks to Dmitry Vyukov for adding uhid definitions to syzkaller and to
Jann Horn for commit 9da3f2b7 ("x86/fault: BUG() when uaccess
helpers fault on kernel addresses"), allowing this bug to be found.

Reported-by: default avatar <syzbot+72473edc9bf4eb1c6556@syzkaller.appspotmail.com>
Fixes: d365c6cf ("HID: uhid: add UHID_CREATE and UHID_DESTROY events")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.6+
Cc: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarJann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
parent 0fd79184
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