what you don't know can hurt you
Home Files News &[SERVICES_TAB]About Contact Add New

FreeBSD Security Advisory - FreeBSD-SA-19:01.syscall

FreeBSD Security Advisory - FreeBSD-SA-19:01.syscall
Posted Feb 6, 2019
Authored by Konstantin Belousov | Site security.freebsd.org

FreeBSD Security Advisory - The callee-save registers are used by kernel and for some of them (%r8, %r10, and for non-PTI configurations, %r9) the content is not sanitized before return from syscalls, potentially leaking sensitive information. Typically an address of some kernel data structure used in the syscall implementation, is exposed.

tags | advisory, kernel
systems | freebsd
advisories | CVE-2019-5595
SHA-256 | 236a816eea4311588ca36396d798417774e37912f40da745164d7609d6d42425

FreeBSD Security Advisory - FreeBSD-SA-19:01.syscall

Change Mirror Download
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA512

============================================================================
FreeBSD-SA-19:01.syscall Security Advisory
The FreeBSD Project

Topic: System call kernel data register leak

Category: core
Module: kernel
Announced: 2019-02-05
Credits: Konstantin Belousov
Affects: All supported versions of FreeBSD.
Corrected: 2019-02-05 17:52:06 UTC (stable/12, 12.0-STABLE)
2019-02-05 18:05:05 UTC (releng/12.0, 12.0-RELEASE-p3)
2019-02-05 17:54:02 UTC (stable/11, 11.2-STABLE)
2019-02-05 18:07:45 UTC (releng/11.2, 11.2-RELEASE-p9)
CVE Name: CVE-2019-5595

For general information regarding FreeBSD Security Advisories,
including descriptions of the fields above, security branches, and the
following sections, please visit <URL:https://security.FreeBSD.org/>.

I. Background

The FreeBSD/amd64 architecture defines the SYSCALL instruction for syscalls,
and uses registers calling conventions for passing syscalls arguments and
return values in addition to the registers usage imposed by the SYSCALL and
SYSRET instructions in long mode. In particular, the arguments are passed in
registers specified by the C ABI, and the content of the registers specified
as caller-save, is undefined after the return from syscall.

II. Problem Description

The callee-save registers are used by kernel and for some of them (%r8, %r10,
and for non-PTI configurations, %r9) the content is not sanitized before
return from syscalls, potentially leaking sensitive information.

III. Impact

Typically an address of some kernel data structure used in the syscall
implementation, is exposed.

IV. Workaround

No workaround is available.

V. Solution

Perform one of the following:

1) Upgrade your vulnerable system to a supported FreeBSD stable or
release / security branch (releng) dated after the correction date,
and reboot.

2) 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 +10m "Rebooting for security update"

3) 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.

[FreeBSD 12.0]
# fetch https://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-19:01/syscall.patch
# fetch https://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-19:01/syscall.patch.asc
# gpg --verify syscall.patch.asc

[FreeBSD 11.2]
# fetch https://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-19:01/syscall.11.2.patch
# fetch https://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/SA-19:01/syscall.11.2.patch.asc
# gpg --verify syscall.patch.11.2.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
<URL:https://www.FreeBSD.org/handbook/kernelconfig.html> and reboot the
system.

VI. Correction details

The following list contains the correction revision numbers for each
affected branch.

Branch/path Revision
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
stable/12/ r343781
releng/12.0/ r343788
stable/11/ r343782
releng/11.2/ r343789
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------

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:

<URL:https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=NNNNNN>

VII. References

<URL:https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-5595>

The latest revision of this advisory is available at
<URL:https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-19:01.syscall.asc>
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
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Aktj
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
Login or Register to add favorites

File Archive:

September 2023

  • Su
  • Mo
  • Tu
  • We
  • Th
  • Fr
  • Sa
  • 1
    Sep 1st
    2 Files
  • 2
    Sep 2nd
    21 Files
  • 3
    Sep 3rd
    0 Files
  • 4
    Sep 4th
    17 Files
  • 5
    Sep 5th
    34 Files
  • 6
    Sep 6th
    29 Files
  • 7
    Sep 7th
    11 Files
  • 8
    Sep 8th
    25 Files
  • 9
    Sep 9th
    0 Files
  • 10
    Sep 10th
    0 Files
  • 11
    Sep 11th
    26 Files
  • 12
    Sep 12th
    23 Files
  • 13
    Sep 13th
    17 Files
  • 14
    Sep 14th
    22 Files
  • 15
    Sep 15th
    16 Files
  • 16
    Sep 16th
    0 Files
  • 17
    Sep 17th
    0 Files
  • 18
    Sep 18th
    19 Files
  • 19
    Sep 19th
    60 Files
  • 20
    Sep 20th
    23 Files
  • 21
    Sep 21st
    15 Files
  • 22
    Sep 22nd
    8 Files
  • 23
    Sep 23rd
    0 Files
  • 24
    Sep 24th
    0 Files
  • 25
    Sep 25th
    17 Files
  • 26
    Sep 26th
    3 Files
  • 27
    Sep 27th
    13 Files
  • 28
    Sep 28th
    5 Files
  • 29
    Sep 29th
    12 Files
  • 30
    Sep 30th
    0 Files

Top Authors In Last 30 Days

File Tags

Systems

packet storm

© 2022 Packet Storm. All rights reserved.

Services
Security Services
Hosting By
Rokasec
close