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module: fix [e_shstrndx].sh_size=0 OOB access

Message ID YnFC93NVRqOterbV@localhost.localdomain (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series module: fix [e_shstrndx].sh_size=0 OOB access | expand

Commit Message

Alexey Dobriyan May 3, 2022, 2:57 p.m. UTC
It is trivial to craft a module to trigger OOB access in this line:

	if (info->secstrings[strhdr->sh_size - 1] != '\0') {

BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffc90000aa0fff
#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
#PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
PGD 100000067 P4D 100000067 PUD 100066067 PMD 10436f067 PTE 0
Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
CPU: 7 PID: 1215 Comm: insmod Not tainted 5.18.0-rc5-00007-g9bf578647087-dirty #10
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.14.0-4.fc34 04/01/2014
RIP: 0010:load_module+0x19b/0x2391

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
---

 kernel/module.c |    4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

Comments

Luis Chamberlain May 3, 2022, 8:15 p.m. UTC | #1
On Tue, May 03, 2022 at 05:57:59PM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> It is trivial to craft a module to trigger OOB access in this line:
> 
> 	if (info->secstrings[strhdr->sh_size - 1] != '\0') {
> 
> BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffc90000aa0fff
> #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
> #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
> PGD 100000067 P4D 100000067 PUD 100066067 PMD 10436f067 PTE 0
> Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
> CPU: 7 PID: 1215 Comm: insmod Not tainted 5.18.0-rc5-00007-g9bf578647087-dirty #10
> Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.14.0-4.fc34 04/01/2014
> RIP: 0010:load_module+0x19b/0x2391
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>

Thanks! Can you resend and Cc stable? This seems like an issue present for
a long time, can you identify the commit which introduced the issue?

  Luis
Alexey Dobriyan May 4, 2022, 9:50 a.m. UTC | #2
On Tue, May 03, 2022 at 01:15:04PM -0700, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> On Tue, May 03, 2022 at 05:57:59PM +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> > It is trivial to craft a module to trigger OOB access in this line:
> > 
> > 	if (info->secstrings[strhdr->sh_size - 1] != '\0') {
> > 
> > BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffc90000aa0fff
> > #PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
> > #PF: error_code(0x0000) - not-present page
> > PGD 100000067 P4D 100000067 PUD 100066067 PMD 10436f067 PTE 0
> > Oops: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP PTI
> > CPU: 7 PID: 1215 Comm: insmod Not tainted 5.18.0-rc5-00007-g9bf578647087-dirty #10
> > Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.14.0-4.fc34 04/01/2014
> > RIP: 0010:load_module+0x19b/0x2391
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
> 
> Thanks! Can you resend and Cc stable?

Stable will pick it up simply because patch does apply I assume?

> This seems like an issue present for
> a long time, can you identify the commit which introduced the issue?

I thought it was ancient code but no.
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--- a/kernel/module.c
+++ b/kernel/module.c
@@ -3033,6 +3033,10 @@  static int elf_validity_check(struct load_info *info)
 	 * strings in the section safe.
 	 */
 	info->secstrings = (void *)info->hdr + strhdr->sh_offset;
+	if (strhdr->sh_size == 0) {
+		pr_err("empty section name table\n");
+		goto no_exec;
+	}
 	if (info->secstrings[strhdr->sh_size - 1] != '\0') {
 		pr_err("ELF Spec violation: section name table isn't null terminated\n");
 		goto no_exec;