linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.16 074/254] X.509: reject invalid BIT STRING for subjectPublicKey

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Message-ID: <lsq.1519831218.592746522@decadent.org.uk>
Date:   Wed, 28 Feb 2018 15:20:18 +0000
From:   Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, "Eric Biggers" <ebiggers@...gle.com>,
        "David Howells" <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        "James Morris" <james.l.morris@...cle.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.16 074/254] X.509: reject invalid BIT STRING for
 subjectPublicKey

3.16.55-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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

From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>

commit 0f30cbea005bd3077bd98cd29277d7fc2699c1da upstream.

Adding a specially crafted X.509 certificate whose subjectPublicKey
ASN.1 value is zero-length caused x509_extract_key_data() to set the
public key size to SIZE_MAX, as it subtracted the nonexistent BIT STRING
metadata byte.  Then, x509_cert_parse() called kmemdup() with that bogus
size, triggering the WARN_ON_ONCE() in kmalloc_slab().

This appears to be harmless, but it still must be fixed since WARNs are
never supposed to be user-triggerable.

Fix it by updating x509_cert_parse() to validate that the value has a
BIT STRING metadata byte, and that the byte is 0 which indicates that
the number of bits in the bitstring is a multiple of 8.

It would be nice to handle the metadata byte in asn1_ber_decoder()
instead.  But that would be tricky because in the general case a BIT
STRING could be implicitly tagged, and/or could legitimately have a
length that is not a whole number of bytes.

Here was the WARN (cleaned up slightly):

    WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 202 at mm/slab_common.c:971 kmalloc_slab+0x5d/0x70 mm/slab_common.c:971
    Modules linked in:
    CPU: 1 PID: 202 Comm: keyctl Tainted: G    B            4.14.0-09238-g1d3b78bbc6e9 #26
    Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.11.0-20171110_100015-anatol 04/01/2014
    task: ffff880033014180 task.stack: ffff8800305c8000
    Call Trace:
     __do_kmalloc mm/slab.c:3706 [inline]
     __kmalloc_track_caller+0x22/0x2e0 mm/slab.c:3726
     kmemdup+0x17/0x40 mm/util.c:118
     kmemdup include/linux/string.h:414 [inline]
     x509_cert_parse+0x2cb/0x620 crypto/asymmetric_keys/x509_cert_parser.c:106
     x509_key_preparse+0x61/0x750 crypto/asymmetric_keys/x509_public_key.c:174
     asymmetric_key_preparse+0xa4/0x150 crypto/asymmetric_keys/asymmetric_type.c:388
     key_create_or_update+0x4d4/0x10a0 security/keys/key.c:850
     SYSC_add_key security/keys/keyctl.c:122 [inline]
     SyS_add_key+0xe8/0x290 security/keys/keyctl.c:62
     entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1f/0x96

Fixes: 42d5ec27f873 ("X.509: Add an ASN.1 decoder")
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
Reviewed-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@...cle.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 crypto/asymmetric_keys/x509_cert_parser.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/crypto/asymmetric_keys/x509_cert_parser.c
+++ b/crypto/asymmetric_keys/x509_cert_parser.c
@@ -348,6 +348,8 @@ int x509_extract_key_data(void *context,
 	ctx->cert->pub->pkey_algo = PKEY_ALGO_RSA;

 	/* Discard the BIT STRING metadata */
+	if (vlen < 1 || *(const u8 *)value != 0)
+		return -EBADMSG;
 	ctx->key = value + 1;
 	ctx->key_size = vlen - 1;
 	return 0;