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Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 16:42:33 -0700
From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
"kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com" <kernel-hardening@...ts.openwall.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
"security@...nel.org" <security@...nel.org>, "secalert@...hat.com" <secalert@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipx: call ipxitf_put() in ioctl error path
On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 3:58 AM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com> wrote:
> We should call ipxitf_put() if the copy_to_user() fails.
>
> Reported-by: 李强 <liqiang6-s@....cn>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
>
> diff --git a/net/ipx/af_ipx.c b/net/ipx/af_ipx.c
> index 8a9219ff2e77..fa31ef29e3fa 100644
> --- a/net/ipx/af_ipx.c
> +++ b/net/ipx/af_ipx.c
> @@ -1168,11 +1168,10 @@ static int ipxitf_ioctl(unsigned int cmd, void __user *arg)
> sipx->sipx_network = ipxif->if_netnum;
> memcpy(sipx->sipx_node, ipxif->if_node,
> sizeof(sipx->sipx_node));
> - rc = -EFAULT;
> + rc = 0;
> if (copy_to_user(arg, &ifr, sizeof(ifr)))
> - break;
> + rc = -EFAULT;
> ipxitf_put(ipxif);
> - rc = 0;
> break;
> }
> case SIOCAIPXITFCRT:
This refcount overflow flaw (and resulting use-after-free) appears to
be reachable from unprivileged userspace, though I think it requires
an interface already be configured, so this is likely not much risk to
most users. Someone more familiar with IPX should double-check...
And, of course, I should point out this flaw would have been blocked
entirely by using refcount_t:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/3/17/193
And if it didn't require a configured interface, it would be mitigated
with module autoload blocking:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/4/19/1088
(Yes, yes, I know both are still being worked on, but this is a good
example to show another case where they'd have been useful.)
-Kees
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Kees Cook
Pixel Security
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