FreeBSD Errata Notice FreeBSD-EN-20:18.getfsstat
2 September, 2020 by errata-notices@freebsd.org | freebsd
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FreeBSD-EN-20:18.getfsstat Errata Notice
The FreeBSD Project
Topic: getfsstat compatibility system call panic
Category: core
Module: getfsstat
Announced: 2020-09-02
Credits: Rodrigo Rubira Branco (BSDaemon), Amazon Web Services
Affects: FreeBSD 11.3 and 11.4
Corrected: 2020-06-20 04:39:52 UTC (stable/11, 11.4-STABLE)
2020-09-02 16:22:14 UTC (releng/11.4, 11.4-RELEASE-p3)
2020-09-02 16:22:14 UTC (releng/11.3, 11.3-RELEASE-p13)
For general information regarding FreeBSD Errata Notices and Security
Advisories, including descriptions of the fields above, security
branches, and the following sections, please visit
<URL:https://security.FreeBSD.org/>.
I. Background
getfsstat(2) is a system call which provides information about mounted
filesystems. The kernel provides compatibility system calls for old
versions of the interface.
II. Problem Description
A bug in an internal interface used by getfsstat(2) compatibility system
calls could result in a free of an uninitialized pointer when getfsstat(2)
is called with an invalid argument.
III. Impact
A kernel panic can be triggered by an unprivileged user process.
IV. Workaround
No workaround is available.
V. Solution
Upgrade your system to a supported FreeBSD stable or release / security
branch (releng) dated after the correction date, and reboot.
Perform one of the following:
1) To update your 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 +10min "Rebooting for an errata update"
2) To update your 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.
# fetch https://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/EN-20:18/getfsstat.patch
# fetch https://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/EN-20:18/getfsstat.patch.asc
# gpg --verify getfsstat.patch.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/11/ r362426
releng/11.4/ r365254
releng/11.3/ r365254
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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
The latest revision of this advisory is available at
<URL:https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-20:18.getfsstat.asc>
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