svn commit: r296958 - stable/9/sys/amd64/amd64

Gleb Smirnoff glebius at FreeBSD.org
Wed Mar 16 22:36:04 UTC 2016


Author: glebius
Date: Wed Mar 16 22:36:02 2016
New Revision: 296958
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/296958

Log:
  Merge r296956:
  
    Due to invalid use of a signed intermediate value in the bounds checking
    during argument validity verification, unbound zero'ing of the process LDT
    and adjacent memory can be initiated from usermode.
  
  Submitted by:   CORE Security
  Patch by:       kib
  Security:       SA-16:15

Modified:
  stable/9/sys/amd64/amd64/sys_machdep.c
Directory Properties:
  stable/9/   (props changed)
  stable/9/sys/   (props changed)

Modified: stable/9/sys/amd64/amd64/sys_machdep.c
==============================================================================
--- stable/9/sys/amd64/amd64/sys_machdep.c	Wed Mar 16 22:35:55 2016	(r296957)
+++ stable/9/sys/amd64/amd64/sys_machdep.c	Wed Mar 16 22:36:02 2016	(r296958)
@@ -586,8 +586,8 @@ amd64_set_ldt(td, uap, descs)
 	struct i386_ldt_args *uap;
 	struct user_segment_descriptor *descs;
 {
-	int error = 0, i;
-	int largest_ld;
+	int error = 0;
+	unsigned int largest_ld, i;
 	struct mdproc *mdp = &td->td_proc->p_md;
 	struct proc_ldt *pldt;
 	struct user_segment_descriptor *dp;


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