linux-kernel - [PATCH v1] xfrm: add forgotten nla_policy for XFRMA_MTIMER

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Message-Id: <20230723074110.3705047-1-linma@zju.edu.cn>
Date:   Sun, 23 Jul 2023 15:41:10 +0800
From:   Lin Ma <linma@....edu.cn>
To:     steffen.klassert@...unet.com, herbert@...dor.apana.org.au,
        davem@...emloft.net, edumazet@...gle.com, kuba@...nel.org,
        pabeni@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Lin Ma <linma@....edu.cn>
Subject: [PATCH v1] xfrm: add forgotten nla_policy for XFRMA_MTIMER_THRESH

The previous commit 4e484b3e969b ("xfrm: rate limit SA mapping change
message to user space") added one additional attribute named
XFRMA_MTIMER_THRESH and described its type at compat_policy
(net/xfrm/xfrm_compat.c).

However, the author forgot to also describe the nla_policy at
xfrma_policy (net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c). Hence, this suppose NLA_U32 (4
bytes) value can be faked as empty (0 bytes) by a malicious user, which
leads to 4 bytes overflow read and heap information leak when parsing
nlattrs.

To exploit this, one malicious user can spray the SLUB objects and then
leverage this 4 bytes OOB read to leak the heap data into
x->mapping_maxage (see xfrm_update_ae_params(...)), and leak it to
userspace via copy_to_user_state_extra(...).

The above bug is assigned CVE-2023-3773. To fix it, this commit just 
completes the nla_policy description for XFRMA_MTIMER_THRESH, which 
enforces the length check and avoids such OOB read.

Fixes: 4e484b3e969b ("xfrm: rate limit SA mapping change message to user space")
Signed-off-by: Lin Ma <linma@....edu.cn>
---
 net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c
index c34a2a06ca94..ab0e73c1e352 100644
--- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c
+++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_user.c
@@ -3035,6 +3035,7 @@ const struct nla_policy xfrma_policy[XFRMA_MAX+1] = {
 	[XFRMA_SET_MARK]	= { .type = NLA_U32 },
 	[XFRMA_SET_MARK_MASK]	= { .type = NLA_U32 },
 	[XFRMA_IF_ID]		= { .type = NLA_U32 },
+	[XFRMA_MTIMER_THRESH]   = { .type = NLA_U32 },
 };
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(xfrma_policy);

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