+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #459462 +++ Description of problem: Register the ":text:E::txt::/root/cat.txt:' rule in binfmt_misc (by root) and try launching the cat.txt file (by anyone) :) The result is - the endless recursion in the load_misc_binary -> open_exec -> load_misc_binary chain and stack overflow. There's a similar problem with binfmt_script, and there's a sh_bang memner on linux_binprm structure to handle this, but simply raising this in binfmt_misc may break some setups when the interpreter of some misc binaries is a script. So the proposal is to turn sh_bang into a bit, add a new one (the misc_bang) and raise it in load_misc_binary. After this, even if we set up the misc -> script -> misc loop for binfmts one of them will step on its own bang and exit. Note that this can be triggered with root help only. http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/3/13/245 --- Additional comment from eteo on 2008-08-19 03:17:02 EDT --- Proposed upstream patch: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=3a2e7f47d71e1df86acc1dda6826890b6546a4e1 --- Additional comment from eteo on 2008-08-19 03:17:35 EDT --- (In reply to comment #1) > Proposed upstream patch: > http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=3a2e7f47d71e1df86acc1dda6826890b6546a4e1 Note that there is a regression. See http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/8/18/544. The patch is not in upstream yet AFAIK.
Steps to Reproduce: 1. as root user, run echo ":text:E::txt::/cat.txt:" > /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc/register; touch /cat.txt; chmod +x /cat.txt 2) as normal user, run /cat.txt
I can confirm that this reproducible on rhel3. However, it doesn't rise to the level of critical bugfix, given that root-owned files must be mis-configured.