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mckusick c4824e67f5 This update eliminates a kernel stack disclosure bug in UFS/FFS
directory entries that is caused by uninitialized directory entry
padding written to the disk. It can be viewed by any user with read
access to that directory. Up to 3 bytes of kernel stack are disclosed
per file entry, depending on the the amount of padding the kernel
needs to pad out the entry to a 32 bit boundry. The offset in the
kernel stack that is disclosed is a function of the filename size.
Furthermore, if the user can create files in a directory, this 3
byte window can be expanded 3 bytes at a time to a 254 byte window
with 75% of the data in that window exposed. The additional exposure
is done by removing the entry, creating a new entry with a 4-byte
longer name, extracting 3 more bytes by reading the directory, and
repeating until a 252 byte name is created.

This exploit works in part because the area of the kernel stack
that is being disclosed is in an area that typically doesn't change
that often (perhaps a few times a second on a lightly loaded system),
and these file creates and unlinks themselves don't overwrite the
area of kernel stack being disclosed.

It appears that this bug originated with the creation of the Fast
File System in 4.1b-BSD (Circa 1982, more than 36 years ago!), and
is likely present in every Unix or Unix-like system that uses
UFS/FFS. Amazingly, nobody noticed until now.

This update also adds the -z flag to fsck_ffs to have it scrub
the leaked information in the name padding of existing directories.
It only needs to be run once on each UFS/FFS filesystem after a
patched kernel is installed and running.

Submitted by: David G. Lawrence <dg@dglawrence.com>
Reviewed by:  kib
MFC after:    1 week
2019-05-03 21:54:14 +00:00
bin Restore the -n flag parsing, but ignore it. 2019-04-24 05:24:10 +00:00
cddl Add a trailing empty line to match the test code output 2019-04-29 03:50:21 +00:00
contrib MFV r346563: 2019-04-23 03:52:43 +00:00
crypto Add workaround for a QoS-related bug in VMWare Workstation. 2019-03-27 15:17:29 +00:00
etc mtree: Add more runtime package tag 2019-04-25 16:45:24 +00:00
gnu Fix gdb/kgdb build under WITH_PIE 2019-04-01 19:19:51 +00:00
include Introduce funlinkat syscall that always us to check if we are removing 2019-04-06 09:34:26 +00:00
kerberos5 Add WITH_PIE knob to build Position Independent Executables 2019-02-15 22:22:38 +00:00
lib Fix copying planar bitmaps when the horizontal start and end are both not 2019-05-03 13:06:46 +00:00
libexec Cleanup for rtld_malloc.c. 2019-05-02 15:03:16 +00:00
release Increase the default size of the GCE disk image from 3GB to 20GB, 2019-05-03 17:23:08 +00:00
rescue rescue: set NO_SHARED in Makefile 2018-11-19 22:18:18 +00:00
sbin This update eliminates a kernel stack disclosure bug in UFS/FFS 2019-05-03 21:54:14 +00:00
secure Add workaround for a QoS-related bug in VMWare Workstation. 2019-03-27 15:17:29 +00:00
share Enroll new committer Doug Moore (dougm@freebsd.org). 2019-05-02 16:28:33 +00:00
stand Use SRC+= rather than SRC= 2019-05-03 21:13:09 +00:00
sys This update eliminates a kernel stack disclosure bug in UFS/FFS 2019-05-03 21:54:14 +00:00
targets retire LINKER_FEATURES filter flag 2018-11-12 20:44:22 +00:00
tests Add a few regression tests for mlock(2). 2019-05-01 15:28:23 +00:00
tools revert QEMU q35 platform use from r346748 2019-04-30 15:28:52 +00:00
usr.bin Unbreak the tests after r347002. 2019-05-01 19:35:45 +00:00
usr.sbin Increase the VirtIO segment count to support modern Windows guests. 2019-05-02 22:46:37 +00:00
.arcconfig callsign isn't required anymore 2016-09-29 06:19:45 +00:00
.arclint arc lint: ignore /tests/ in chmod 2017-12-19 03:38:06 +00:00
.cirrus.yml Cirrus-CI: pass OVMF env var to test script for upcoming changes 2019-04-11 13:01:26 +00:00
.gitattributes MK_ZFS -> {MK_ZFS|MK_LOADER_ZFS}, this is so we can diable userland / kernel 2019-01-05 22:45:20 +00:00
.gitignore Ignore _.universe-toolchain file. 2018-07-01 13:50:37 +00:00
COPYRIGHT Happy New Year 2019! 2019-01-01 00:25:25 +00:00
LOCKS LOCKS: update current locks 2018-06-09 03:08:04 +00:00
MAINTAINERS Update/reformat maintainer entries that I am a part of 2019-04-29 18:48:43 +00:00
Makefile Fix a typo when sanity checking in the bootstrap-tools target 2019-04-09 16:17:31 +00:00
Makefile.inc1 pkgbase: Use uname as ABI_FILE 2019-03-27 17:55:39 +00:00
Makefile.libcompat Use ...-freebsd13.0 in -target strings. 2018-11-12 16:55:20 +00:00
Makefile.sys.inc AUTO_OBJ: For all top-level targets enforce using an OBJDIR. 2017-12-05 21:29:47 +00:00
ObsoleteFiles.inc Set tentative merge date, and bump __FreeBSD_version. 2019-03-04 19:23:11 +00:00
README Import wpa_supplicant/hostapd 2.8 2019-04-22 15:42:53 +00:00
README.md README: add generic notes about GENERIC and NOTES 2018-06-17 19:44:24 +00:00
UPDATING random(4): Restore availability tradeoff prior to r346250 2019-04-18 20:48:54 +00:00

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