https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=717209 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=717209#c0 Summary: /proc/[PID]/attr/current overwrite Null pointer dereference Classification: openSUSE Product: openSUSE 11.4 Version: Final Platform: x86-64 OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Normal Priority: P5 - None Component: Kernel AssignedTo: kernel-maintainers@forge.provo.novell.com ReportedBy: suse-beta@cboltz.de QAContact: qa@suse.de Found By: Beta-Customer Blocker: --- Description stolen from https://bugs.launchpad.net/apparmor/+bug/789409 - you can find more details there. I can reproduce this bug on 11.4 with all updates installed. I can't reproduce it on 11.3. I don't know if Factory is affected because I don't have a Factory installation right now. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Crashes application attempting improperly formatted write to /proc/<pid>/attr/current Fix: Upstream commit a5b2c5b2ad5853591a6cac6134cd0f599a720865 Test Case: echo 'AAA AAA' > /proc/$$/attr/current The terminal/shell/tab the command is run in will crash and a kernel Bug will be logged === test case (from gnome-terminal+bash): emanuel@emanuel-desktop:~$ echo 'AAA AAA' > /proc/$$/attr/current # the tab crashed emanuel@emanuel-desktop:~$ dmesg | tail -n 28 # on other tab in gnome-terminal [107353.169116] ------------[ cut here ]------------ [107353.169142] kernel BUG at /build/buildd/linux-2.6.38/security/apparmor/audit.c:183! [107353.169159] invalid opcode: 0000 [#7] SMP [107353.169176] last sysfs file: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0d.0/host2/target2:0:0/2:0:0:0/block/sda/sda1/uevent [107353.169193] Modules linked in: nls_utf8 isofs vesafb binfmt_misc vboxsf snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_codec ac97_bus snd_pcm snd_seq_midi snd_rawmidi snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq ppdev snd_timer snd_seq_device snd joydev psmouse parport_pc serio_raw vboxguest soundcore i2c_piix4 snd_page_alloc lp parport usbhid ahci hid e1000 libahci [107353.169251] [107353.169268] Pid: 8851, comm: bash Tainted: G D 2.6.38-8-generic #42-Ubuntu innotek GmbH VirtualBox [107353.169289] EIP: 0060:[<c1244939>] EFLAGS: 00210246 CPU: 0 [107353.169313] EIP is at aa_audit+0x129/0x160 [107353.169329] EAX: 00000002 EBX: f2c35eb4 ECX: 000000d0 EDX: 00000000 [107353.169344] ESI: 00000008 EDI: f2c35f1c EBP: f2c35e90 ESP: f2c35e84 [107353.169360] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 00e0 SS: 0068 [107353.169376] Process bash (pid: 8851, ti=f2c34000 task=c6c01940 task.ti=f2c34000) [107353.169389] Stack: [107353.169402] 00000004 00000008 f2c35f1c f2c35f2c c1249a95 f2c35eb4 00000000 d0e4e000 [107353.169424] 00000000 d0e4e004 d0dd0aa4 d0e4e004 00000007 00000000 00000000 00000000 [107353.169784] 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 [107353.169808] Call Trace: [107353.169832] [<c1249a95>] apparmor_setprocattr+0x205/0x210 [107353.169856] [<c121c40e>] security_setprocattr+0x1e/0x30 [107353.169877] [<c1171c26>] proc_pid_attr_write+0xe6/0x100 [107353.169896] [<c11271a2>] vfs_write+0xa2/0x170 [107353.169915] [<c1171b40>] ? proc_pid_attr_write+0x0/0x100 [107353.169932] [<c1127482>] sys_write+0x42/0x70 [107353.169955] [<c1509bf4>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb [107353.169969] Code: 00 00 8b 4b 04 85 c9 74 19 31 d2 b8 09 00 00 00 e8 2d cb e1 ff 8b 43 40 e9 62 ff ff ff 90 8d 74 26 00 64 8b 0d ec 54 83 c1 eb de <0f> 0b 83 3d 18 a2 90 c1 01 74 16 83 7a 3c 01 74 10 8b 0d 1c a2 [107353.170048] EIP: [<c1244939>] aa_audit+0x129/0x160 SS:ESP 0068:f2c35e84 [107353.170073] ---[ end trace 824fc722cb1d8e19 ]--- -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.