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coredump: Fixes core_pipe_limit sysctl proc_handler
proc_dointvec converts a string to a vector of signed int, which is stored in the unsigned int .data core_pipe_limit. It was thus authorized to write a negative value to core_pipe_limit sysctl which once stored in core_pipe_limit, leads to the signed int dump_count check against core_pipe_limit never be true. The same can be achieved with core_pipe_limit set to INT_MAX. Any negative write or >= to INT_MAX in core_pipe_limit sysctl would hypothetically allow a user to create very high load on the system by running processes that produces a coredump in case the core_pattern sysctl is configured to pipe core files to user space helper. Memory or PID exhaustion should happen before but it anyway breaks the core_pipe_limit semantic. This commit fixes this by changing core_pipe_limit sysctl's proc_handler to proc_dointvec_minmax and bound checking between SYSCTL_ZERO and SYSCTL_INT_MAX. Fixes: a293980 ("exec: let do_coredump() limit the number of concurrent dumps to pipes") Signed-off-by: Nicolas Bouchinet <nicolas.bouchinet@ssi.gouv.fr> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <kees@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Joel Granados <joel.granados@kernel.org>
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