[2.24] Ignore and remove LD_HWCAP_MASK for AT_SECURE programs (bug #21209)
Florian Weimer
fweimer@redhat.com
Sun Jan 1 00:00:00 GMT 2017
The LD_HWCAP_MASK environment variable may alter the selection of
function variants for some architectures. For AT_SECURE process it
means that if an outdated routine has a bug that would otherwise not
affect newer platforms by default, LD_HWCAP_MASK will allow that bug
to be exploited.
To be on the safe side, ignore and disable LD_HWCAP_MASK for setuid
binaries.
[BZ #21209]
* elf/rtld.c (process_envvars): Ignore LD_HWCAP_MASK for
AT_SECURE processes.
* sysdeps/generic/unsecvars.h: Add LD_HWCAP_MASK.
(cherry picked from commit 1c1243b6fc33c029488add276e56570a07803bfd)
2017-03-07 Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>
[BZ #21209]
* elf/rtld.c (process_envvars): Ignore LD_HWCAP_MASK for
AT_SECURE processes.
* sysdeps/generic/unsecvars.h: Add LD_HWCAP_MASK.
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index d42af91..c4c082b 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ Security related changes:
The following bugs are resolved with this release:
+ [21209] Ignore and remove LD_HWCAP_MASK for AT_SECURE programs
[21289] Fix symbol redirect for fts_set
[21386] Assertion in fork for distinct parent PID is incorrect
[21624] Unsafe alloca allows local attackers to alias stack and heap (CVE-2017-1000366)
diff --git a/elf/rtld.c b/elf/rtld.c
index 302bb63..8f56d6e 100644
--- a/elf/rtld.c
+++ b/elf/rtld.c
@@ -2553,7 +2553,8 @@ process_envvars (enum mode *modep)
case 10:
/* Mask for the important hardware capabilities. */
- if (memcmp (envline, "HWCAP_MASK", 10) == 0)
+ if (!__libc_enable_secure
+ && memcmp (envline, "HWCAP_MASK", 10) == 0)
GLRO(dl_hwcap_mask) = __strtoul_internal (&envline[11], NULL,
0, 0);
break;
diff --git a/sysdeps/generic/unsecvars.h b/sysdeps/generic/unsecvars.h
index 3e56538..ac57bd5 100644
--- a/sysdeps/generic/unsecvars.h
+++ b/sysdeps/generic/unsecvars.h
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@
"LD_DEBUG\0" \
"LD_DEBUG_OUTPUT\0" \
"LD_DYNAMIC_WEAK\0" \
+ "LD_HWCAP_MASK\0" \
"LD_LIBRARY_PATH\0" \
"LD_ORIGIN_PATH\0" \
"LD_PRELOAD\0" \
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