load_misc_binary() raises bprm->have_execfd as soon as it sees the 'O' (or 'C') flag. This happens well before it opens the interpreter. If that open fails the flag stays set on the bprm. binfmt_misc is at the head of the format list so an interpreter open failure that returns -ENOEXEC lets the search fall through to a later format. This means it runs the matched binary directly having never staged an interpreter. So bprm->executable is NULL while have_execfd falsely claims a descriptor is present. Consequently, begin_new_exec() dereferences the missing executable: would_dump(bprm, bprm->executable); and NULL derefs. Had it not, the hand-off later in the same function would have failed anyway. FD_ADD(0, bprm->executable) rejects a NULL file with -ENOMEM. Both sites are past the point of no return so the exec cannot be unwound either way. This can be reached by unprivileged users as binfmt_misc can be mounted in user namespaces. So a user can register an 'O' entry whose interpreter lives on a FUSE mount, have the FUSE server fail the open with -ENOEXEC and execute a native ELF file that matches the entry. have_execfd only means anything alongside the executable it describes which is not set until the interpreter has been opened and staged. So lets raise it there, next to execfd_creds, which is already set at that point. An open failure now leaves it clear, so the fallback format derives credentials from the binary and emits no AT_EXECFD, as it would for any native exec. The argv rewrite load_misc_binary() performs before the open is still not undone. This means the binary sees the interpreter path in argv[0] and its own path in argv[1] but that predates this change and only became observable once the exec stopped faulting. Fixes: bc2bf338d54b ("exec: Remove recursion from search_binary_handler") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) --- fs/binfmt_misc.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/binfmt_misc.c b/fs/binfmt_misc.c index 84349fcb93f1..5de615ca7a75 100644 --- a/fs/binfmt_misc.c +++ b/fs/binfmt_misc.c @@ -228,9 +228,6 @@ static int load_misc_binary(struct linux_binprm *bprm) goto ret; } - if (fmt->flags & MISC_FMT_OPEN_BINARY) - bprm->have_execfd = 1; - /* make argv[1] be the path to the binary */ retval = copy_string_kernel(bprm->interp, bprm); if (retval < 0) @@ -260,6 +257,8 @@ static int load_misc_binary(struct linux_binprm *bprm) goto ret; bprm->interpreter = interp_file; + if (fmt->flags & MISC_FMT_OPEN_BINARY) + bprm->have_execfd = 1; if (fmt->flags & MISC_FMT_CREDENTIALS) bprm->execfd_creds = 1; -- 2.53.0