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authorAndy Lutomirski <[email protected]>2017-08-01 07:11:34 -0700
committerIngo Molnar <[email protected]>2017-08-10 17:15:13 +0200
commit767d035d838f4fd6b5a5bbd7a3f6d293b7f65a49 (patch)
tree04a5a48615adfd05d7a7be426f8367aa3c67700a /tools/perf/scripts/python/export-to-postgresql.py
parentaf79ded44b7c5eee46b433a9269fcf899372225b (diff)
x86/fsgsbase/64: Fully initialize FS and GS state in start_thread_common
execve used to leak FSBASE and GSBASE on AMD CPUs. Fix it. The security impact of this bug is small but not quite zero -- it could weaken ASLR when a privileged task execs a less privileged program, but only if program changed bitness across the exec, or the child binary was highly unusual or actively malicious. A child program that was compromised after the exec would not have access to the leaked base. Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]> Cc: Brian Gerst <[email protected]> Cc: Chang Seok <[email protected]> Cc: Denys Vlasenko <[email protected]> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]> Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <[email protected]> Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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