linux kernel 2.6.25.15 get_instantiation_keyring() should inc the keyring

2009.11.05
Risk: Low
Local: Yes
Remote: No
CWE: CWE-310


CVSS Base Score: 4.6/10
Impact Subscore: 6.4/10
Exploitability Subscore: 3.9/10
Exploit range: Local
Attack complexity: Low
Authentication: No required
Confidentiality impact: Partial
Integrity impact: Partial
Availability impact: Partial

Quoting from the upstream commit: "The destination keyring specified to request_key() and co. is made available to the process that instantiates the key (the slave process started by /sbin/request-key typically). This is passed in the request_key_auth struct as the dest_keyring member. keyctl_instantiate_key and keyctl_negate_key() call get_instantiation_keyring() to get the keyring to attach the newly constructed key to at the end of instantiation. This may be given a specific keyring into which a link will be made later, or it may be asked to find the keyring passed to request_key(). In the former case, it returns a keyring with the refcount incremented by lookup_user_key(); in the latter case, it returns the keyring from the request_key_auth struct - and does _not_ increment the refcount. The latter case will eventually result in an oops when the keyring prematurely runs out of references and gets destroyed. The effect may take some time to show up as the key is destroyed lazily. To fix this, the keyring returned by get_instantiation_keyring() must always have its refcount incremented, no matter where it comes from." This was introduced in upstream commit 8bbf4976 (v2.6.29-rc1). References: http://git.kernel.org/linus/8bbf4976 http://git.kernel.org/linus/21279cfa107af07ef985539ac0de2152b9cba5f5 http://twitter.com/spendergrsec/status/4916661870

References:

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/ChangeLog-2.6.32-rc5
http://twitter.com/spendergrsec/statuses/4916661870
http://secunia.com/advisories/37086
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125624091417161&w=2
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125619420905341&w=2
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=21279cfa107af07ef985539ac0de2152b9cba5f5


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