-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-SA-20:08.jail Security Advisory The FreeBSD Project Topic: Kernel memory disclosure with nested jails Category: core Module: kern Announced: 2020-03-19 Credits: Hans Christian Woithe Affects: All supported versions of FreeBSD. Corrected: 2020-03-16 21:12:46 UTC (stable/12, 12.1-STABLE) 2020-03-19 16:51:33 UTC (releng/12.1, 12.1-RELEASE-p3) 2020-03-16 21:12:32 UTC (stable/11, 11.3-STABLE) 2020-03-19 16:51:33 UTC (releng/11.3, 11.3-RELEASE-p7) CVE Name: CVE-2020-7453 For general information regarding FreeBSD Security Advisories, including descriptions of the fields above, security branches, and the following sections, please visit . I. Background The jail_set(2) system call allows a system administrator to lock up a process and all its descendants inside a closed environment with very limited ability to affect the system outside that environment, even for processes with superuser privileges. The jail_get(2) system call allows a system administrator to read the configuration of running jails. II. Problem Description A missing NUL-termination check for the jail_set(2) configration option "osrelease" may return more bytes when reading the jail configuration back with jail_get(2) than were originally set. III. Impact For jails with a non-default setting of children.max > 0 ("nested jails") a superuser inside a jail can create a jail and may be able to read and take advantage of exposed kernel memory. IV. Workaround No workaround is available. Systems not altering the default settings of the jail configuration option children.max=0 are not affected as a root on the base system has access to kernel memory by other means and a super user inside a jail cannot create further jails. V. Solution Upgrade your vulnerable system to a supported FreeBSD stable or release / security branch (releng) dated after the correction date, and reboot. Perform one of the following: 1) To update your vulnerable system via a binary patch: Systems running a RELEASE version of FreeBSD on the i386 or amd64 platforms can be updated via the freebsd-update(8) utility: # freebsd-update fetch # freebsd-update install # shutdown -r +10min "Rebooting for a security update" 2) To update your vulnerable system via a source code patch: The following patches have been verified to apply to the applicable FreeBSD release branches. a) Download the relevant patch from the location below, and verify the detached PGP signature using your PGP utility. # fetch https://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-20:08/kern_jail.patch # fetch https://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-20:08/kern_jail.patch.asc # gpg --verify kern_jail.patch.asc b) Apply the patch. Execute the following commands as root: # cd /usr/src # patch < /path/to/patch c) Recompile your kernel as described in and reboot the system. VI. Correction details The following list contains the correction revision numbers for each affected branch. Branch/path Revision - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- stable/12/ r359021 releng/12.1/ r359142 stable/11/ r359020 releng/11.3/ r359142 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To see which files were modified by a particular revision, run the following command, replacing NNNNNN with the revision number, on a machine with Subversion installed: # svn diff -cNNNNNN --summarize svn://svn.freebsd.org/base Or visit the following URL, replacing NNNNNN with the revision number: VII. References The latest revision of this advisory is available at -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQKTBAEBCgB9FiEE/A6HiuWv54gCjWNV05eS9J6n5cIFAl5zplhfFIAAAAAALgAo aXNzdWVyLWZwckBub3RhdGlvbnMub3BlbnBncC5maWZ0aGhvcnNlbWFuLm5ldEZD MEU4NzhBRTVBRkU3ODgwMjhENjM1NUQzOTc5MkY0OUVBN0U1QzIACgkQ05eS9J6n 5cKWdw//ZFfaoCenbVtvB6a4JW9HOT0yMoDXup+OdpjbhUTsJSyvDB9eZUSiZJ7u 4rQZpYQZotND2I/U8BSUjcJlDVzhTn6WN1yZFpWI9oFrSJhKxkwGMuetocUw7MgE ++WaaVueodMBjG7+v7mUmr5pXomdpxCO4XZxTW0BCm3Pvydera1kZVHzQ2pAw0On cnOiSN+v04latfkjjdjPv+oC8GUsI3Q+4jF745MN9dND+4KV/4CW5BJg6sUiJakx WB6cXayxp+Q/WPoB4OS/w3loe1FGIqESjXMxdHAV0n9eVofv8+h0rQt5kQ9oFpCm Ql2NUG7xKqoidGlhzff5w0j5+VNXA/exv+sH/lQTZO5xJa/5Ti1wlUxsrp/8jO9Z vRDd3CwjOIG+dFBSAXWcAaSedJ+Ax97RVbfKmYiy5B7ujJp/X6rJXU2G3zOhObCS 8/E+KHlj9YT4hN73zDeGiw5zKVjbfVQp661mKgP1lO+4Mv9357F8epux+CV3fdb6 BBttCm8l8ubhfr12fmBAfXUXDx7stNTpvcgphGUB0v6Sfxbv0OHoGzfAGrQ3i3LP Os7OoFRJ+2SJ/G8xpjVjriOsAoLeUX43JIlPTOEvU2mhol/M717Rwn94ndqXfNJh XCF2AaOVXxBpdx2Vik3FBTGZvAfTCxMQOZwGn7zVzpbxlCbasKM= =13XM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----