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Date: Sun, 5 Nov 2023 18:36:52 +0100
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: Pietro Borrello <borrello@...g.uniroma1.it>
Cc: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Linux Kernel: hid: type confusions on hid report_list entry
On Tue, Jan 17, 2023 at 06:05:30PM +0100, Pietro Borrello wrote:
> We found potential misuses of list_entry() on lists in hid driver
> code that are not checked, specifically hid_validate_values() in
> drivers/hid/hid-core.c and bigben_probe() in drivers/hid/hid-bigbenff.c.
> Issuing a list_entry() on an empty list causes a type confusion making
> the list_entry point to the list_head itself.
> The most impactful seems the missing check for an empty list in
> hid_validate_values() which is supposed to check the validity of the
> reports themselves, potentially affecting all the drivers that rely on it.
>
> The problem is caused by the driver's assumption that the device must
> have a valid report_list. While this will be true for all normal HID
> devices, a suitably malicious device can violate the assumption.
>
> At a first glance, it may seem that the patches have security implications.
> However, when plugging a device which provides a descriptor with no output
> report, the type confusions will create a fake struct hid_report*
> which points to ((struct hid_device *)hid).report_enum[type].report_list.
> This, by chance, makes the type confused structure to span
> the `struct hid_report* report_id_hash[256]` array in the
> ((struct hid_device *)hid).report_enum[type] field.
>
> Then, due to their semantics hid_validate_values() will check
> (report->maxfield > field_index) on the type-confused report,
> and the maxfield field happens to overlap on the
> report_id_hash[] array in the report_enum[type] field
> which are all NULL since we provided no reports.
> Similarly, for bigben_probe(), the confused report entry is
> used in the bigben_worker() function which checks
> (report->field[0] != NULL) that, again, overlaps with a NULL
> pointer.
> It seems there is a commit (918aa1ef104d: "HID: bigbenff: prevent
> null pointer dereference") which added the check for report_field
> being NULL to bigben_worker() to prevent crashing, but without
> checking the actual root cause.
>
> Thus, while being type confusions bugs, they are not exploitable.
> The list checks should be added also to prevent future exploitability
> if the shape of the structure changes (e.g., structure layout
> randomization), and they do not overlap anymore with NULL pointers.
> In this case, it is not exploitable just by the pure chance of struct
> member ordering.
>
> This post has been written in accordance with linux-distros rules to
> which we disclosed the initial findings of the potential vulnerabilities.
> as even if the bugs seem not exploitable, the wider community on
> oss-security might see how the issue does have security relevance.
>
> We submitted patches to fix the issue by checking that the lists
> are non-empty before allowing them to be used:
> https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230114-hid-fix-emmpty-report-list-v1-0-e4d02fad3ba5@diag.uniroma1.it/T/
This was assigned CVE-2023-1073, which also covers a bug mentioned in
another oss-security posting below:
CVE-2023-1073 - Type Confusion in hid_validate_values()
patch:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/?id=b12fece4c64857e5fab4290bf01b2e0317a88456
oss-security: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/01/17/3
CVE-2023-1073 - Type Confusion in bigben_probe()
patch:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/?id=c7bf714f875531f227f2ef1fdcc8f4d44e7c7d9d
oss-security: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/01/17/3
CVE-2023-1073 - NULL Ptr Deref in betopff_init()
patch:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/linux-next.git/commit/?id=3782c0d6edf658b71354a64d60aa7a296188fc90
oss-security: https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2023/01/18/3
Alexander
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