From 330d57fb98a916fa8e1363846540dd420e99499a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Al Viro Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 10:18:40 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Fix sysctl unregistration oops (CVE-2005-2709) You could open the /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf// file, then wait for interface to go away, try to grab as much memory as possible in hope to hit the (kfreed) ctl_table. Then fill it with pointers to your function. Then do read from file you've opened and if you are lucky, you'll get it called as ->proc_handler() in kernel mode. So this is at least an Oops and possibly more. It does depend on an interface going away though, so less of a security risk than it would otherwise be. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/proc_fs.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/linux/proc_fs.h') diff --git a/include/linux/proc_fs.h b/include/linux/proc_fs.h index 65ceeaa3065..74488e49166 100644 --- a/include/linux/proc_fs.h +++ b/include/linux/proc_fs.h @@ -66,6 +66,7 @@ struct proc_dir_entry { write_proc_t *write_proc; atomic_t count; /* use count */ int deleted; /* delete flag */ + void *set; }; struct kcore_list { -- cgit v1.2.3