rtld: Check __libc_enable_secure before honoring LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC (CVE-2019-19126) [BZ #25204]
Commit Message
The problem was introduced in glibc 2.23, in commit
b9eb92ab05204df772eb4929eccd018637c9f3e9
("Add Prefer_MAP_32BIT_EXEC to map executable pages with MAP_32BIT").
---
NEWS | 6 +++++-
sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/64/dl-librecon.h | 3 ++-
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
Comments
* Marcin Kościelnicki:
> The problem was introduced in glibc 2.23, in commit
> b9eb92ab05204df772eb4929eccd018637c9f3e9
> ("Add Prefer_MAP_32BIT_EXEC to map executable pages with MAP_32BIT").
Thanks, I have pushed this for you.
Florian
@@ -86,7 +86,11 @@ Changes to build and runtime requirements:
Security related changes:
- [Add security related changes here]
+ CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
+ environment variable during program execution after a security
+ transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
+ addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
+ program. Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
The following bugs are resolved with this release:
@@ -31,7 +31,8 @@
environment variable, LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC. */
#define EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS \
case 21: \
- if (memcmp (envline, "PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC", 21) == 0) \
+ if (!__libc_enable_secure \
+ && memcmp (envline, "PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC", 21) == 0) \
GLRO(dl_x86_cpu_features).feature[index_arch_Prefer_MAP_32BIT_EXEC] \
|= bit_arch_Prefer_MAP_32BIT_EXEC; \
break;