Re: [PATCH] AppArmor: fix oops in apparmor_setprocattr

[Kees Cook]

Hi James,

On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 10:25:37AM +1000, James Morris wrote:
> On Tue, 31 May 2011, Kees Cook wrote:
> > When invalid parameters are passed to apparmor_setprocattr a NULL deref
> > oops occurs when it tries to record an audit message. This is because
> > it is passing NULL for the profile parameter for aa_audit. But aa_audit
> > now requires that the profile passed is not NULL.
> > 
> > Fix this by passing the current profile on the task that is trying to
> > setprocattr.
> 
> Is this trigger able by unprivileged users?

Yes, but the Oops kills the process doing the write as it triggers
the BUG_ON, not the process being written to.

> >From which upstream commit is this an issue?

b5e95b48685e3481139a5634d14d630d12c7d5ce

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Ubuntu Security Team
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