Re: [Kernel bug] KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds Read in in4_pton

[Eric Dumazet]

On Fri, Mar 1, 2024 at 3:41 AM Sam Sun <samsun1006219@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Dear developers and maintainers,
>
> We found a bug through our modified Syzkaller. Kernel version is b401b621758,
> Linux 6.8-rc5. The C reproducer and kernel config are attached.
>
> KASAN report is listed below
>
> ```
> ==================================================================
> BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in strlen+0x7d/0xa0 lib/string.c:418
> Read of size 1 at addr ffff8881119c4781 by task syz-executor665/8107
>
> CPU: 1 PID: 8107 Comm: syz-executor665 Not tainted 6.7.0-rc7 #1
> Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.15.0-1 04/01/2014
> Call Trace:
>  <TASK>
>  __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline]
>  dump_stack_lvl+0xd9/0x150 lib/dump_stack.c:106
>  print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:364 [inline]
>  print_report+0xc1/0x5e0 mm/kasan/report.c:475
>  kasan_report+0xbe/0xf0 mm/kasan/report.c:588
>  strlen+0x7d/0xa0 lib/string.c:418
>  __fortify_strlen include/linux/fortify-string.h:210 [inline]
>  in4_pton+0xa3/0x3f0 net/core/utils.c:130
>  bond_option_arp_ip_targets_set+0xc2/0x910 drivers/net/bonding/bond_options.c:1201
>  __bond_opt_set+0x2a4/0x1030 drivers/net/bonding/bond_options.c:767
>  __bond_opt_set_notify+0x48/0x150 drivers/net/bonding/bond_options.c:792
>  bond_opt_tryset_rtnl+0xda/0x160 drivers/net/bonding/bond_options.c:817
>  bonding_sysfs_store_option+0xa1/0x120 drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c:156
>  dev_attr_store+0x54/0x80 drivers/base/core.c:2366
>  sysfs_kf_write+0x114/0x170 fs/sysfs/file.c:136
>  kernfs_fop_write_iter+0x337/0x500 fs/kernfs/file.c:334
>  call_write_iter include/linux/fs.h:2020 [inline]
>  new_sync_write fs/read_write.c:491 [inline]
>  vfs_write+0x96a/0xd80 fs/read_write.c:584
>  ksys_write+0x122/0x250 fs/read_write.c:637
>  do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/common.c:52 [inline]
>  do_syscall_64+0x40/0x110 arch/x86/entry/common.c:83
>  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x63/0x6b
> RIP: 0033:0x7f797835cfcd
> Code: 28 c3 e8 46 1e 00 00 66 0f 1f 44 00 00 f3 0f 1e fa 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 b8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
> RSP: 002b:00007ffff464ffb8 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000001
> RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007ffff46501b8 RCX: 00007f797835cfcd
> RDX: 00000000000000f5 RSI: 0000000020000140 RDI: 0000000000000003
> RBP: 0000000000000001 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00007ffff46501b8
> R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000001
> R13: 00007ffff46501a8 R14: 00007f79783da530 R15: 0000000000000001
>  </TASK>
>
> All


>
> We analyzed the cause of this bug. In the function "bond_option_arp_ip_targets_set" in
> drivers/net/bonding/bond_options.c, newval->string can be controlled by users. If string
>
> is empty, newval->string+1 points to the address after newval->string, causing potential
>
> info leak.
>
> One possible fix is to check before calling in4_pton, whether strnlen(newval->string) > 1.
>
> If you have any questions or require more information, please feel
> free to contact us.
>
> Reported by Yue Sun <samsun1006219@xxxxxxxxx>
>

Thanks for the report and analysis.

Are you willing to provide a patch ?

You would get more credits than a "Reported-by:" tag :)

Thanks