Re: [PATCH] net: sched: Fix memory exposure from short TCA_U32_SEL

From: Kees Cook
Date: Sun Aug 26 2018 - 02:19:42 EST


On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 11:15 PM, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 10:58:01PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
>> Via u32_change(), TCA_U32_SEL has an unspecified type in the netlink
>> policy, so max length isn't enforced, only minimum. This means nkeys
>> (from userspace) was being trusted without checking the actual size of
>> nla_len(), which could lead to a memory over-read, and ultimately an
>> exposure via a call to u32_dump(). Reachability is CAP_NET_ADMIN within
>> a namespace.
>>
>> Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: Jiri Pirko <jiri@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> This should go through -stable please, but I have left off the "Cc:
>> stable" as per netdev patch policy. Note that use of struct_size()
>> will need manual expansion in backports, such as:
>> sel_size = sizeof(*s) + sizeof(*s->keys) * s->nkeys;
>
> Saner approach would be sel_size = offsetof(struct tc_u32_sel, keys[s->nkeys])...

Either is fine by me.

>> + sel_size = struct_size(s, keys, s->nkeys);
>> + if (nla_len(tb[TCA_U32_SEL]) < sel_size) {
>> + err = -EINVAL;
>> + goto erridr;
>> + }
>>
>> - n = kzalloc(sizeof(*n) + s->nkeys*sizeof(struct tc_u32_key), GFP_KERNEL);
>> + n = kzalloc(offsetof(typeof(*n), sel) + sel_size, GFP_KERNEL);
>
> ITYM
> n = kzalloc(offsetof(struct tc_u_common, sel.keys[s->nkeys]), GFP_KERNEL);

I prefer to reuse sel_size and keep typeof() to keep things tied to
"n" more directly. *shrug*

-Kees

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Kees Cook
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