Re: [PATCH 2/3] net: packet: fix information leak to userland
From: walter harms <hidden>
Date: 2010-11-07 11:37:39
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Am 06.11.2010 15:39, schrieb Vasiliy Kulikov:
On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 10:14 +0100, walter harms wrote:quoted
Vasiliy Kulikov schrieb:quoted
packet_getname_spkt() doesn't initialize all members of sa_data field of sockaddr struct if strlen(dev->name) < 13. This structure is then copied to userland. It leads to leaking of contents of kernel stack memory. We have to fully fill sa_data with strncpy() instead of strlcpy(). The same with packet_getname(): it doesn't initialize sll_pkttype field of sockaddr_ll. Set it to zero. Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <redacted> --- net/packet/af_packet.c | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)diff --git a/net/packet/af_packet.c b/net/packet/af_packet.c index 3616f27..0856a13 100644 --- a/net/packet/af_packet.c +++ b/net/packet/af_packet.c@@ -1719,7 +1719,7 @@ static int packet_getname_spkt(struct socket *sock, struct sockaddr *uaddr, rcu_read_lock(); dev = dev_get_by_index_rcu(sock_net(sk), pkt_sk(sk)->ifindex); if (dev) - strlcpy(uaddr->sa_data, dev->name, 15); + strncpy(uaddr->sa_data, dev->name, 14); else memset(uaddr->sa_data, 0, 14);if i understand the code correcly the max size for dev->name is IFNAMSIZ.For dev->name - IFNAMSIZ, for uaddr->sa_data - 14.
did not notice, since uaddr->sa_data should take dev->name this does no look very clever. How is the size of sa_data defined ? Would it hurt when some uses IFNAMSIZ here ? Perhaps someone who know more about the network stack can figure out what is actualy done with uaddr->sa_data. looks like a can of worms. In packet_bind_spkt() they will copy a char[15], obviously it is a real problem. re, wh
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You can simply that part: memset(uaddr->sa_data, 0, IFNAMSIZ); dev = dev_get_by_index_rcu(sock_net(sk), pkt_sk(sk)->ifindex); if (dev) strlcpy(uaddr->sa_data, dev->name, IFNAMSIZ);This will overflow uaddr->sa_data. Also I don't see any difficulty to fill the array only once.quoted
you should send that as separate patch. re, whquoted
rcu_read_unlock();@@ -1742,6 +1742,7 @@ static int packet_getname(struct socket *sock, struct sockaddr *uaddr, sll->sll_family = AF_PACKET; sll->sll_ifindex = po->ifindex; sll->sll_protocol = po->num; + sll->sll_pkttype = 0; rcu_read_lock(); dev = dev_get_by_index_rcu(sock_net(sk), po->ifindex); if (dev) {Thanks,