Linux kernel: powerpc: KVM guest to host memory corruption
From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Date: 2021-07-26 09:14:01
The Linux kernel for powerpc since v3.10 has a bug which allows a malicious KVM guest to
corrupt host memory.
In the handling of the H_RTAS hypercall, args.rets is made to point into the args.args
buffer which is located on the stack:
args.rets = &args.args[be32_to_cpu(args.nargs)];
However args.nargs has not been range checked. That allows the guest to point args.rets
anywhere up to +16GB from args.args.
The guest does not have control of what is written to args.rets, it is always (u32)-3,
because subsequent code does check nargs. Additionally the guest will be killed as a
result of the nargs being out of range, so a given guest only has a single shot at
corrupting memory.
Only machines using Linux as the hypervisor, aka. KVM or bare metal, are affected by the
bug.
The bug was introduced in:
8e591cb72047 ("KVM: PPC: Book3S: Add infrastructure to implement kernel-side RTAS calls")
Which was first released in v3.10.
The upstream fix is:
f62f3c20647e ("KVM: PPC: Book3S: Fix H_RTAS rets buffer overflow")
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f62f3c20647ebd5fb6ecb8f0b477b9281c44c10a
Which will be included in the v5.14 release.
cheers