linux-kernel - [PATCH] Audit: fix handling of 'strings' with NULL characters

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Date:	Thu, 11 Sep 2008 17:48:39 -0400
From:	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>
To:	linux-audit@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, jdennis@...hat.com, mitr@...hat.com,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, sgrubb@...hat.com
Subject: [PATCH] Audit: fix handling of 'strings' with NULL characters

currently audit_log_n_untrustedstring() uses
audit_string_contains_control() to check if the 'string' has any control
characters.  If the 'string' has an embedded NULL
audit_string_contains_control() will return that the data has no control
characters and will then pass the string to audit_log_n_string with the
total length, not the length up to the first NULL.  audit_log_n_string
does a memcpy of the entire length and so the actual audit record
emitted may then contain a NULL and then whatever random memory is after
the NULL.

Since we want to log the entire octet stream (if we can't trust the data
to be a string we can't trust that a NULL isn't actually a part of it)
we should just consider NULL as a control character.  If the caller is
certain they want to stop at the first NULL they should be using
audit_log_untrustedstring.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>

---

Miloslav, this is also going to take care of nulls in the TTY_AUDIT_USER
message from userspace.  Is it going to be common to have control
characters on that code path as well?  Do you want to change
audit_receive_msg() to also use the hex encoding directly instead of the
_n_untrustedstring interface?

 kernel/audit.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c
index 4414e93..ccb8d68 100644
--- a/kernel/audit.c
+++ b/kernel/audit.c
@@ -1370,7 +1370,7 @@ void audit_log_n_string(struct audit_buffer *ab, const char *string,
 int audit_string_contains_control(const char *string, size_t len)
 {
 	const unsigned char *p;
-	for (p = string; p < (const unsigned char *)string + len && *p; p++) {
+	for (p = string; p < (const unsigned char *)string + len; p++) {
 		if (*p == '"' || *p < 0x21 || *p > 0x7e)
 			return 1;
 	}

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