rtld: Check __libc_enable_secure before honoring LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC (CVE-2019...

The problem was introduced in glibc 2.23, in commit
b9eb92ab05204df772eb4929eccd018637c9f3e9
("Add Prefer_MAP_32BIT_EXEC to map executable pages with MAP_32BIT").

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 50479f1..df03f4d 100644 (file)
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -86,7 +86,11 @@ Changes to build and runtime requirements:
 
 Security related changes:
 
-  [Add security related changes here]
+  CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC
+  environment variable during program execution after a security
+  transition, allowing local attackers to restrict the possible mapping
+  addresses for loaded libraries and thus bypass ASLR for a setuid
+  program.  Reported by Marcin Kościelnicki.
 
 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
 

diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/64/dl-librecon.h b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/64/dl-librecon.h
index 0e95221..e3af239 100644 (file)
--- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/64/dl-librecon.h
+++ b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/x86_64/64/dl-librecon.h
@@ -31,7 +31,8 @@
    environment variable, LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC.  */
 #define EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS \
   case 21:                                                               \
-    if (memcmp (envline, "PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC", 21) == 0)              \
+    if (!__libc_enable_secure                                            \
+       && memcmp (envline, "PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC", 21) == 0)            \
       GLRO(dl_x86_cpu_features).feature[index_arch_Prefer_MAP_32BIT_EXEC] \
        |= bit_arch_Prefer_MAP_32BIT_EXEC;                                \
     break;