netdev - Re: [patch] net: heap overflow in __audit

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Date:	Wed, 2 Oct 2013 22:11:46 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
CC:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	<security@...nel.org>,
	Jüri Aedla <juri.aedla@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [patch] net: heap overflow in __audit_sockaddr()

On Wed, 2013-10-02 at 21:58 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> We need to cap ->msg_namelen or it leads to a buffer overflow when we
> to the memcpy() in __audit_sockaddr().  It requires CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL to
> exploit this bug.
> 
> The call tree is:
> ___sys_recvmsg()
>   move_addr_to_user()
>     audit_sockaddr()
>       __audit_sockaddr()
> 
> Reported-by: Jüri Aedla <juri.aedla@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
>
> diff --git a/net/socket.c b/net/socket.c
> index ebed4b6..c226ace 100644
> --- a/net/socket.c
> +++ b/net/socket.c
> @@ -1964,6 +1964,16 @@ struct used_address {
>  	unsigned int name_len;
>  };
>  
> +static int copy_msghdr_from_user(struct msghdr *kmsg,
> +				 struct msghdr __user *umsg)
> +{
> +	if (copy_from_user(kmsg, umsg, sizeof(struct msghdr)))
> +		return -EFAULT;
> +	if (kmsg->msg_namelen > sizeof(struct sockaddr_storage))
> +		return -EINVAL;
> +	return 0;
> +}
> +
>  static int ___sys_sendmsg(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr __user *msg,
>  			 struct msghdr *msg_sys, unsigned int flags,
>  			 struct used_address *used_address)
> @@ -1982,8 +1992,11 @@ static int ___sys_sendmsg(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr __user *msg,
>  	if (MSG_CMSG_COMPAT & flags) {
>  		if (get_compat_msghdr(msg_sys, msg_compat))
>  			return -EFAULT;
> -	} else if (copy_from_user(msg_sys, msg, sizeof(struct msghdr)))
> -		return -EFAULT;
> +	} else {
> +		err = copy_msghdr_from_user(msg_sys, msg);
> +		if (err)
> +			return err;
> +	}
[...]

This doesn't cover compat tasks, since get_compat_msghdr() has no such
check.

Ben.

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