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personality: fix PER_CLEAR_ON_SETID

We have found that the current PER_CLEAR_ON_SETID mask on Linux doesn't
include neither ADDR_COMPAT_LAYOUT, nor MMAP_PAGE_ZERO.

The current mask is READ_IMPLIES_EXEC|ADDR_NO_RANDOMIZE.

We believe it is important to add MMAP_PAGE_ZERO, because by using this
personality it is possible to have the first page mapped inside a
process running as setuid root. This could be used in those scenarios:

- Exploiting a NULL pointer dereference issue in a setuid root binary
- Bypassing the mmap_min_addr restrictions of the Linux kernel: by
running a setuid binary that would drop privileges before giving us
control back (for instance by loading a user-supplied library), we
could get the first page mapped in a process we control. By further
using mremap and mprotect on this mapping, we can then completely
bypass the mmap_min_addr restrictions.

Less importantly, we believe ADDR_COMPAT_LAYOUT should also be added
since on x86 32bits it will in practice disable most of the address
space layout randomization (only the stack will remain randomized).

Signed-off-by: Julien Tinnes <jt@cr0.org>
Signed-off-by: Tavis Ormandy <taviso@sdf.lonestar.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Kees Cook <kees@ubuntu.com>
Acked-by: Eugene Teo <eugene@redhat.com>
[ Shortened lines and fixed whitespace as per Christophs' suggestion ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

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Julien Tinnes and committed by
Linus Torvalds
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include/linux/personality.h
··· 40 40 * Security-relevant compatibility flags that must be 41 41 * cleared upon setuid or setgid exec: 42 42 */ 43 - #define PER_CLEAR_ON_SETID (READ_IMPLIES_EXEC|ADDR_NO_RANDOMIZE) 43 + #define PER_CLEAR_ON_SETID (READ_IMPLIES_EXEC | \ 44 + ADDR_NO_RANDOMIZE | \ 45 + ADDR_COMPAT_LAYOUT | \ 46 + MMAP_PAGE_ZERO) 44 47 45 48 /* 46 49 * Personality types.