Tuesday, May 31, 2016

Bugtraq: FreeBSD Security Advisory FreeBSD-SA-16:21.43bsd

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FreeBSD-SA-16:21.43bsd Security Advisory

The FreeBSD Project

Topic: Kernel stack disclosure in 4.3BSD compatibility layer

Category: core

Module: kernel

Announced: 2016-05-31

Credits: CTurt

Affects: All supported versions of FreeBSD.

Corrected: 2016-05-31 16:57:42 UTC (stable/10, 10.3-STABLE)

2016-05-31 16:55:50 UTC (releng/10.3, 10.3-RELEASE-p4)

2016-05-31 16:55:45 UTC (releng/10.2, 10.2-RELEASE-p18)

2016-05-31 16:55:41 UTC (releng/10.1, 10.1-RELEASE-p35)

2016-05-31 16:58:00 UTC (stable/9, 9.3-STABLE)

2016-05-31 16:55:37 UTC (releng/9.3, 9.3-RELEASE-p43)

For general information regarding FreeBSD Security Advisories,

including descriptions of the fields above, security branches, and the

following sections, please visit <URL:http://ift.tt/1W1G8vo;.

I. Background

FreeBSD has binary compatibility layer with historic 4.3BSD operating

system.

II. Problem Description

The implementation of historic stat(2) system call does not clear the

output struct before copying it out to userland.

III. Impact

An unprivileged user can read a portion of uninitialised kernel stack data,

which may contain sensitive information, such as the stack guard, portions

of the file cache or terminal buffers, which an attacker might leverage to

obtain elevated privileges.

IV. Workaround

No workaround is available, but systems not using the 4.3BSD compatibility

layer are not vulnerable.

The 4.3BSD compatibility layer is not included into the default GENERIC kernel

configuration. A custom kernel config that does not have the COMPAT_43 option

is also not vulnerable.

V. Solution

Perform one of the following:

1) Upgrade your vulnerable system to a supported FreeBSD stable or

release / security branch (releng) dated after the correction date.

Reboot is required.

2) To update your vulnerable system via a source code patch:

The following patches have been verified to apply to the applicable

FreeBSD release branches.

a) Download the relevant patch from the location below, and verify the

detached PGP signature using your PGP utility.

# fetch http://ift.tt/1XMZHH0

# fetch http://ift.tt/1Us7CXI

# gpg --verify stat.patch.asc

b) Apply the patch. Execute the following commands as root:

# cd /usr/src

# patch < /path/to/patch

c) Recompile your kernel as described in

<URL:http://ift.tt/1Tj87kl; and reboot the

system.

VI. Correction details

The following list contains the correction revision numbers for each

affected branch.

Branch/path Revision

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stable/9/ r301055

releng/9.3/ r301049

stable/10/ r301054

releng/10.1/ r301050

releng/10.2/ r301051

releng/10.3/ r301052

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To see which files were modified by a particular revision, run the

following command, replacing NNNNNN with the revision number, on a

machine with Subversion installed:

# svn diff -cNNNNNN --summarize svn://svn.freebsd.org/base

Or visit the following URL, replacing NNNNNN with the revision number:

<URL:http://ift.tt/1Tj8sDF;

VII. References

<URL:http://ift.tt/1Us7NCb;

The latest revision of this advisory is available at

<URL:http://ift.tt/1XN05W1;

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