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DNS: Fix a NULL pointer deref when trying to read an error key [CVE-2011-1076]

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When a DNS resolver key is instantiated with an error indication, attempts to
read that key will result in an oops because user_read() is expecting there to
be a payload - and there isn't one [CVE-2011-1076].

Give the DNS resolver key its own read handler that returns the error cached in
key->type_data.x[0] as an error rather than crashing.

Also make the kenter() at the beginning of dns_resolver_instantiate() limit the
amount of data it prints, since the data is not necessarily NUL-terminated.

The buggy code was added in:

	commit 4a2d789267
	Author: Wang Lei <wang840925@gmail.com>
	Date:   Wed Aug 11 09:37:58 2010 +0100
	Subject: DNS: If the DNS server returns an error, allow that to be cached [ver #2]

This can trivially be reproduced by any user with the following program
compiled with -lkeyutils:

	#include <stdlib.h>
	#include <keyutils.h>
	#include <err.h>
	static char payload[] = "#dnserror=6";
	int main()
	{
		key_serial_t key;
		key = add_key("dns_resolver", "a", payload, sizeof(payload),
			      KEY_SPEC_SESSION_KEYRING);
		if (key == -1)
			err(1, "add_key");
		if (keyctl_read(key, NULL, 0) == -1)
			err(1, "read_key");
		return 0;
	}

What should happen is that keyctl_read() reports error 6 (ENXIO) to the user:

	dns-break: read_key: No such device or address

but instead the kernel oopses.

This cannot be reproduced with the 'keyutils add' or 'keyutils padd' commands
as both of those cut the data down below the NUL termination that must be
included in the data.  Without this dns_resolver_instantiate() will return
-EINVAL and the key will not be instantiated such that it can be read.

The oops looks like:

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000010
IP: [<ffffffff811b99f7>] user_read+0x4f/0x8f
PGD 3bdf8067 PUD 385b9067 PMD 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP
last sysfs file: /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:19.0/irq
CPU 0
Modules linked in:

Pid: 2150, comm: dns-break Not tainted 2.6.38-rc7-cachefs+ #468                  /DG965RY
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff811b99f7>]  [<ffffffff811b99f7>] user_read+0x4f/0x8f
RSP: 0018:ffff88003bf47f08  EFLAGS: 00010246
RAX: 0000000000000001 RBX: ffff88003b5ea378 RCX: ffffffff81972368
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 0000000000000000 RDI: ffff88003b5ea378
RBP: ffff88003bf47f28 R08: ffff88003be56620 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000395 R11: 0000000000000002 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 0000000000000000 R15: ffffffffffffffa1
FS:  00007feab5751700(0000) GS:ffff88003e000000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000010 CR3: 000000003de40000 CR4: 00000000000006f0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000ffff0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Process dns-break (pid: 2150, threadinfo ffff88003bf46000, task ffff88003be56090)
Stack:
 ffff88003b5ea378 ffff88003b5ea3a0 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
 ffff88003bf47f68 ffffffff811b708e ffff88003c442bc8 0000000000000000
 00000000004005a0 00007fffba368060 0000000000000000 0000000000000000
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff811b708e>] keyctl_read_key+0xac/0xcf
 [<ffffffff811b7c07>] sys_keyctl+0x75/0xb6
 [<ffffffff81001f7b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
Code: 75 1f 48 83 7b 28 00 75 18 c6 05 58 2b fb 00 01 be bb 00 00 00 48 c7 c7 76 1c 75 81 e8 13 c2 e9 ff 4c 8b b3 e0 00 00 00 4d 85 ed <41> 0f b7 5e 10 74 2d 4d 85 e4 74 28 e8 98 79 ee ff 49 39 dd 48
RIP  [<ffffffff811b99f7>] user_read+0x4f/0x8f
 RSP <ffff88003bf47f08>
CR2: 0000000000000010

Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
cc: Wang Lei <wang840925@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
This commit is contained in:
David Howells 2011-03-03 11:28:58 +00:00 committed by James Morris
parent dd9c1549ed
commit 1362fa078d
2 changed files with 25 additions and 4 deletions
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9
Documentation/networking/dns_resolver.txt
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@ -61,7 +61,6 @@ before the more general line given above as the first match is the one taken.
create dns_resolver foo:* * /usr/sbin/dns.foo %k
=====
USAGE
=====
@ -104,6 +103,14 @@ implemented in the module can be called after doing:
returned also.
===============================
READING DNS KEYS FROM USERSPACE
===============================
Keys of dns_resolver type can be read from userspace using keyctl_read() or
"keyctl read/print/pipe".
=========
MECHANISM
=========

20
net/dns_resolver/dns_key.c
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@ -67,8 +67,9 @@ dns_resolver_instantiate(struct key *key, const void *_data, size_t datalen)
size_t result_len = 0;
const char *data = _data, *end, *opt;
kenter("%%%d,%s,'%s',%zu",
key->serial, key->description, data, datalen);
kenter("%%%d,%s,'%*.*s',%zu",
key->serial, key->description,
(int)datalen, (int)datalen, data, datalen);
if (datalen <= 1 || !data || data[datalen - 1] != '\0')
return -EINVAL;
@ -217,6 +218,19 @@ static void dns_resolver_describe(const struct key *key, struct seq_file *m)
seq_printf(m, ": %u", key->datalen);
}
/*
* read the DNS data
* - the key's semaphore is read-locked
*/
static long dns_resolver_read(const struct key *key,
char __user *buffer, size_t buflen)
{
if (key->type_data.x[0])
return key->type_data.x[0];
return user_read(key, buffer, buflen);
}
struct key_type key_type_dns_resolver = {
.name = "dns_resolver",
.instantiate = dns_resolver_instantiate,
@ -224,7 +238,7 @@ struct key_type key_type_dns_resolver = {
.revoke = user_revoke,
.destroy = user_destroy,
.describe = dns_resolver_describe,
.read = user_read,
.read = dns_resolver_read,
};
static int __init init_dns_resolver(void)