linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] crypto: hmac - require that the underlying hash algorithm is unkeyed

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Date:   Wed, 29 Nov 2017 16:24:25 +1100
From:   Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:     Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] crypto: hmac - require that the underlying hash
 algorithm is unkeyed

On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 06:01:38PM -0800, Eric Biggers wrote:
> From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
> 
> Because the HMAC template didn't check that its underlying hash
> algorithm is unkeyed, trying to use "hmac(hmac(sha3-512-generic))"
> through AF_ALG or through KEYCTL_DH_COMPUTE resulted in the inner HMAC
> being used without having been keyed, resulting in sha3_update() being
> called without sha3_init(), causing a stack buffer overflow.
> 
> This is a very old bug, but it seems to have only started causing real
> problems when SHA-3 support was added (requires CONFIG_CRYPTO_SHA3)
> because the innermost hash's state is ->import()ed from a zeroed buffer,
> and it just so happens that other hash algorithms are fine with that,
> but SHA-3 is not.  However, there could be arch or hardware-dependent
> hash algorithms also affected; I couldn't test everything.
> 
> Fix the bug by introducing a function crypto_shash_alg_has_setkey()
> which tests whether a shash algorithm is keyed.  Then update the HMAC
> template to require that its underlying hash algorithm is unkeyed.
> 
> Here is a reproducer:
> 
>     #include <linux/if_alg.h>
>     #include <sys/socket.h>
> 
>     int main()
>     {
>         int algfd;
>         struct sockaddr_alg addr = {
>             .salg_type = "hash",
>             .salg_name = "hmac(hmac(sha3-512-generic))",
>         };
>         char key[4096] = { 0 };
> 
>         algfd = socket(AF_ALG, SOCK_SEQPACKET, 0);
>         bind(algfd, (const struct sockaddr *)&addr, sizeof(addr));
>         setsockopt(algfd, SOL_ALG, ALG_SET_KEY, key, sizeof(key));
>     }
> 
> Here was the KASAN report from syzbot:
> 
>     BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in memcpy include/linux/string.h:341  [inline]
>     BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in sha3_update+0xdf/0x2e0  crypto/sha3_generic.c:161
>     Write of size 4096 at addr ffff8801cca07c40 by task syzkaller076574/3044
> 
>     CPU: 1 PID: 3044 Comm: syzkaller076574 Not tainted 4.14.0-mm1+ #25
>     Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS  Google 01/01/2011
>     Call Trace:
>       __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:17 [inline]
>       dump_stack+0x194/0x257 lib/dump_stack.c:53
>       print_address_description+0x73/0x250 mm/kasan/report.c:252
>       kasan_report_error mm/kasan/report.c:351 [inline]
>       kasan_report+0x25b/0x340 mm/kasan/report.c:409
>       check_memory_region_inline mm/kasan/kasan.c:260 [inline]
>       check_memory_region+0x137/0x190 mm/kasan/kasan.c:267
>       memcpy+0x37/0x50 mm/kasan/kasan.c:303
>       memcpy include/linux/string.h:341 [inline]
>       sha3_update+0xdf/0x2e0 crypto/sha3_generic.c:161
>       crypto_shash_update+0xcb/0x220 crypto/shash.c:109
>       shash_finup_unaligned+0x2a/0x60 crypto/shash.c:151
>       crypto_shash_finup+0xc4/0x120 crypto/shash.c:165
>       hmac_finup+0x182/0x330 crypto/hmac.c:152
>       crypto_shash_finup+0xc4/0x120 crypto/shash.c:165
>       shash_digest_unaligned+0x9e/0xd0 crypto/shash.c:172
>       crypto_shash_digest+0xc4/0x120 crypto/shash.c:186
>       hmac_setkey+0x36a/0x690 crypto/hmac.c:66
>       crypto_shash_setkey+0xad/0x190 crypto/shash.c:64
>       shash_async_setkey+0x47/0x60 crypto/shash.c:207
>       crypto_ahash_setkey+0xaf/0x180 crypto/ahash.c:200
>       hash_setkey+0x40/0x90 crypto/algif_hash.c:446
>       alg_setkey crypto/af_alg.c:221 [inline]
>       alg_setsockopt+0x2a1/0x350 crypto/af_alg.c:254
>       SYSC_setsockopt net/socket.c:1851 [inline]
>       SyS_setsockopt+0x189/0x360 net/socket.c:1830
>       entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1f/0x96
> 
> Reported-by: syzbot <syzkaller@...glegroups.com>
> Cc: <stable@...r.kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>

Patch applied.  Thanks.
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