-----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 . 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 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: VII. References The latest revision of this advisory is available at -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQKTBAEBCgB9FiEE/A6HiuWv54gCjWNV05eS9J6n5cIFAlxZ1X9fFIAAAAAALgAo aXNzdWVyLWZwckBub3RhdGlvbnMub3BlbnBncC5maWZ0aGhvcnNlbWFuLm5ldEZD MEU4NzhBRTVBRkU3ODgwMjhENjM1NUQzOTc5MkY0OUVBN0U1QzIACgkQ05eS9J6n 5cKPZBAAlwCVtNNIuq0s8FB9LjLaVJww1WWmbVJbhw1TJyBV2yRCkWwGDLag3dJ0 EH8HwpWeL41lppjFeL6OMDZ2+wUnuShv3pAUGwodSRXsKWsp+aWqMPcNJifkVPxs DENrziUHnXkbOnbnP25eA12j0ztCz8FjKoDh+wrjuY4BL8jzBK4ZJtmYaubrFEcD GDStnEcvCNYDK8tf0rUW2lpv4oStTex5gFpZALPjq0g28kHPuctYzoOXOf9/So1i 0kwdstsIdgydsDCHv5nXij7IDohNo+5KEJuee1cIptKftmxPLuonXyP0PiO3WA0h XQck1BbM5ENNm/0SOExctcqS+APXLf/VPhd2JwUPszRcYBV40pdqchkihoRXAKHs Dthv+9k9KrgwUO0wsrOvIzK8vjnVC2unUCXnFNX3OD2pfxCjKvl1grKQ2lAsP4Pu aP2VgPZyHbFKWQdOGaqOtM94CzXseXyYN3hgkNq+gPgDjkd7Xw8q5vu8d2QY/aYj Re4aEfUOzf9S22SQT9g4kx2QfEnUuJnnae3BMeBqWGngtQ7TnTHWrw3wGhxxC2S8 iou+BzeCv9MRn74Fpzr/xnGRUwT+0wFJVd9N9QdpErRA59oo6X4TXNl6AvKHvxY7 1UurBJ5MqUGUUIeJg8Qv5HpgJML3BiotDbk+LwmMx7T2IL1dJdk= =Aktj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----