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Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2023 23:59:47 +0100
From: Peter Korsgaard <peter@...sgaard.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Buildroot: Talos download hash verification vulnerabilities
Hello,
Talos recently published two vulnerability reports related to the hash
verification of sources downloaded by Buildroot. These issues are fixed
in Buildroot 2023.02.8 / 2023.08.4 / 2023.11.
The reports are:
https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2023-1844
CVE-2023-45841,CVE-2023-45842,CVE-2023-45838,CVE-2023-45839,CVE-2023-45840
Multiple data integrity vulnerabilities exist in the package hash
checking functionality of Buildroot 2023.08.1 and Buildroot dev commit
622698d7847. A specially crafted man-in-the-middle attack can lead to
arbitrary command execution in the builder.
And:
https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2023-1845
CVE-2023-43608
A data integrity vulnerability exists in the BR_NO_CHECK_HASH_FOR
functionality of Buildroot 2023.08.1 and dev commit 622698d7847. A
specially crafted man-in-the-middle attack can lead to arbitrary command
execution in the builder.
A summary describing the fixes and new features for handling download
hashes for custom package locations and versions has been posted to the
mailing list:
https://lore.kernel.org/buildroot/87y1e7sq4u.fsf@48ers.dk/T/#u
(Included here in full):
Talos recently reported a number of security vulnerabilities in the
package download hash checking in Buildroot, and these are now public
at:
https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2023-1844
https://talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2023-1845
A small number of packages did not have a .hash file, meaning that the
downloaded sources were not verified - And for aufs + aufs-util they
were downloaded from a http:// site, so conceptually vulnerable to a man
in the middle attack.
aufs/aufs-utils were changed to fetch from https by:
https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/-/commit/f2a590750f5bedcee48ce7beb8f35356b42eda11
https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/-/commit/99d525028f969220719a4e6bcd694f7d9cfd5b67
The fallback download location on source.buildroot.net was changed to
use https:// by:
https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/-/commit/05296ced369bab8877efa624f3d9b4d201ba5b38
Hash files for riscv64-elf-toolchain and mxsldr were added by:
https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/-/commit/cf2dcaa1ecede670a0bc54841652a0e3bea5c744
https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/-/commit/fefcfddc5e6a265c66adbdff615558f99133f148
Which are all included in 2023.02.7 / 2023.08.3 / 2023.11.
Some packages allow a custom version or even a custom upstream location
(E.G. Linux, U-Boot, versal-firmware, ..). For those custom versions
Buildroot naturally cannot provide the expected hash, so instead we have
added support for providing hashes for those files in the
BR2_GLOBAL_PATCH_DIR location and added a
BR2_DOWNLOAD_FORCE_CHECK_HASHES option to enforce hash checking (and
fail if missing/invalid) for all downloads. This was added by:
https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/-/commit/5d36710e36fc4698c8fae71675bcff7395246006
https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/-/commit/e091e31831122b60b084bd755e94df4dfe7188d2
To make it easier to manage these custom hash files a
utils/add-custom-hashes helper script has been added by:
https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/-/commit/4984d0f230d0962270beb195966603f1d5a56300
Which are all included in 2023.02.7 / 2023.08.3 / 2023.11.
See the documentation for further details about this feature:
https://buildroot.org/downloads/manual/manual.html#_adding_project_specific_patches_and_hashes
Notice that it is up to the user of Buildroot to use this feature to
protect their custom downloads!
Finally the toradex_apalis_imx6_defconfig fetched Linux and U-Boot from
a git:// URL, so custom hashes were added in the BR2_GLOBAL_PATCH_DIR
for those by:
https://gitlab.com/buildroot.org/buildroot/-/commit/cdc9b8a3a75c4c39f23feb4e3b0e296786e0132c
Which is included in 2023.02.8 / 2023.08.4 / 2023.11.
Thanks to Talos for discovering and reporting these issues to us and to
Yann E. MORIN for implementing the custom hash logic.
--
Bye, Peter Korsgaard
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