linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.16.y-ckt 125/126] printk: prevent userland from spoofing kernel messages

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Message-Id: <1449653896-5236-126-git-send-email-luis.henriques@canonical.com>
Date:	Wed,  9 Dec 2015 09:38:15 +0000
From:	Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@...onical.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com
Cc:	Mathias Krause <minipli@...glemail.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.cz>, Alex Elder <elder@...aro.org>,
	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, Kay Sievers <kay@...y.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>,
	Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@...onical.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.16.y-ckt 125/126] printk: prevent userland from spoofing kernel messages

3.16.7-ckt21 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Mathias Krause <minipli@...glemail.com>

commit 3824657c522f19f85a76bd932821174a5557a382 upstream.

The following statement of ABI/testing/dev-kmsg is not quite right:

   It is not possible to inject messages from userspace with the
   facility number LOG_KERN (0), to make sure that the origin of the
   messages can always be reliably determined.

Userland actually can inject messages with a facility of 0 by abusing the
fact that the facility is stored in a u8 data type.  By using a facility
which is a multiple of 256 the assignment of msg->facility in log_store()
implicitly truncates it to 0, i.e.  LOG_KERN, allowing users of /dev/kmsg
to spoof kernel messages as shown below:

The following call...
   # printf '<%d>Kernel panic - not syncing: beer empty\n' 0 >/dev/kmsg
...leads to the following log entry (dmesg -x | tail -n 1):
   user  :emerg : [   66.137758] Kernel panic - not syncing: beer empty

However, this call...
   # printf '<%d>Kernel panic - not syncing: beer empty\n' 0x800 >/dev/kmsg
...leads to the slightly different log entry (note the kernel facility):
   kern  :emerg : [   74.177343] Kernel panic - not syncing: beer empty

Fix that by limiting the user provided facility to 8 bit right from the
beginning and catch the truncation early.

Fixes: 7ff9554bb578 ("printk: convert byte-buffer to variable-length...")
Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@...glemail.com>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.cz>
Cc: Alex Elder <elder@...aro.org>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay@...y.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
[ kamal: backport to 3.13-stable: retain local 'int i' ]
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@...onical.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@...onical.com>
---
 kernel/printk/printk.c | 12 ++++++++----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c
index f7f6f7e5ff8a..5fa3f3b3b338 100644
--- a/kernel/printk/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c
@@ -259,6 +259,9 @@ static u32 clear_idx;
 #define PREFIX_MAX		32
 #define LOG_LINE_MAX		1024 - PREFIX_MAX

+#define LOG_LEVEL(v)		((v) & 0x07)
+#define LOG_FACILITY(v)		((v) >> 3 & 0xff)
+
 /* record buffer */
 #if defined(CONFIG_HAVE_EFFICIENT_UNALIGNED_ACCESS)
 #define LOG_ALIGN 4
@@ -547,12 +550,13 @@ static ssize_t devkmsg_writev(struct kiocb *iocb, const struct iovec *iv,
 	line = buf;
 	if (line[0] == '<') {
 		char *endp = NULL;
+		unsigned int u;

-		i = simple_strtoul(line+1, &endp, 10);
+		u = simple_strtoul(line + 1, &endp, 10);
 		if (endp && endp[0] == '>') {
-			level = i & 7;
-			if (i >> 3)
-				facility = i >> 3;
+			level = LOG_LEVEL(u);
+			if (LOG_FACILITY(u) != 0)
+				facility = LOG_FACILITY(u);
 			endp++;
 			len -= endp - line;
 			line = endp;
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