Thread (6 messages) 6 messages, 2 authors, 2021-12-09

Re: [PATCH 1/1] sctp: Protect cached endpoints to prevent possible UAF

From: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>
Date: 2021-12-09 12:22:00
Also in: linux-sctp, lkml

On Wed, Dec 08, 2021 at 05:02:12PM +0000, Lee Jones wrote:
On Wed, 08 Dec 2021, Lee Jones wrote:
quoted
The cause of the resultant dump_stack() reported below is a
dereference of a freed pointer to 'struct sctp_endpoint' in
sctp_sock_dump().

This race condition occurs when a transport is cached into its
associated hash table then freed prior to its subsequent use in
sctp_diag_dump() which uses sctp_for_each_transport() to walk the
(now out of date) hash table calling into sctp_sock_dump() where the
dereference occurs.

To prevent this from happening we need to take a reference on the
to-be-used/dereferenced 'struct sctp_endpoint' until such a time when
we know it can be safely released.

When KASAN is not enabled, a similar, but slightly different NULL
pointer derefernce crash occurs later along the thread of execution in
inet_sctp_diag_fill() this time.

  BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in sctp_sock_dump+0xa8/0x438 [sctp_diag]
  Call trace:
   dump_backtrace+0x0/0x2dc
   show_stack+0x20/0x2c
   dump_stack+0x120/0x144
   print_address_description+0x80/0x2f4
   __kasan_report+0x174/0x194
   kasan_report+0x10/0x18
   __asan_load8+0x84/0x8c
   sctp_sock_dump+0xa8/0x438 [sctp_diag]
   sctp_for_each_transport+0x1e0/0x26c [sctp]
   sctp_diag_dump+0x180/0x1f0 [sctp_diag]
   inet_diag_dump+0x12c/0x168
   netlink_dump+0x24c/0x5b8
   __netlink_dump_start+0x274/0x2a8
   inet_diag_handler_cmd+0x224/0x274
   sock_diag_rcv_msg+0x21c/0x230
   netlink_rcv_skb+0xe0/0x1bc
   sock_diag_rcv+0x34/0x48
   netlink_unicast+0x3b4/0x430
   netlink_sendmsg+0x4f0/0x574
   sock_write_iter+0x18c/0x1f0
   do_iter_readv_writev+0x230/0x2a8
   do_iter_write+0xc8/0x2b4
   vfs_writev+0xf8/0x184
   do_writev+0xb0/0x1a8
   __arm64_sys_writev+0x4c/0x5c
   el0_svc_common+0x118/0x250
   el0_svc_handler+0x3c/0x9c
   el0_svc+0x8/0xc
This looks related (reported 3 years ago!)

  https://lore.kernel.org/all/20181122131344.GD31918@localhost.localdomain/ (local)
Agree, seems related. Thanks for root causing it.
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