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[Steve Langasek <1775856@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The Precise Pangolin has reached end of life, so this bug will not be
fixed for that release

** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Precise)
       Status: Incomplete => Won't Fix

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Title:
  register on binfmt_misc may overflow and crash the system

Status in linux package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in linux source package in Precise:
  Won't Fix
Status in linux source package in Trusty:
  Fix Released
Status in linux source package in Xenial:
  Fix Released
Status in linux source package in Artful:
  Fix Released
Status in linux source package in Bionic:
  Fix Released
Status in linux source package in Cosmic:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [Impact]
  When registering a new binfmt_misc handler, it is possible to overflow
  the offset to get a negative value, which might crash the system, or
  possibly leak kernel data.

  Here is a crash log when 2500000000 was used as an offset:

    BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at ffff989cfd6edca0
    IP: load_misc_binary+0x22b/0x470 [binfmt_misc]
    PGD 1ef3e067 P4D 1ef3e067 PUD 0
    Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP NOPTI
    Modules linked in: binfmt_misc kvm_intel ppdev kvm irqbypass joydev input_leds serio_raw mac_hid parport_pc qemu_fw_cfg parpy
    CPU: 0 PID: 2499 Comm: bash Not tainted 4.15.0-22-generic #24-Ubuntu
    Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.11.1-1 04/01/2014
    RIP: 0010:load_misc_binary+0x22b/0x470 [binfmt_misc]
    Call Trace:
      search_binary_handler+0x97/0x1d0
      do_execveat_common.isra.34+0x667/0x810
      SyS_execve+0x31/0x40
      do_syscall_64+0x73/0x130
      entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x3d/0xa2

  Use kstrtoint instead of simple_strtoul.  It will work as the code
  already set the delimiter byte to '\0' and we only do it when the field
  is not empty.

  [Test Case]
  Tested with offsets -1, 2500000000, UINT_MAX and INT_MAX.  Also tested
  with examples documented at Documentation/admin-guide/binfmt-misc.rst
  and other registrations from packages on Ubuntu.

  [Regression]
  Fail to register valid types. This was tested with a bionic kernel with the patch.

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