CVE-2024-50301 Information

Nov 20, 2024 cve

Description

In the Linux kernel the following vulnerability has been resolved:

security/keys: fix slab-out-of-bounds in key_task_permission

KASAN reports an out of bounds read: BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in __kuid_val include/linux/uidgid.h:36 BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in uid_eq include/linux/uidgid.h:63 [inline] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in key_task_permission+0x394/0x410 security/keys/permission.c:54 Read of size 4 at addr ffff88813c3ab618 by task stress-ng/4362

CPU: 2 PID: 4362 Comm: stress-ng Not tainted 5.10.0-14930-gafbffd6c3ede 15 Call Trace: __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:82 [inline] dump_stack+0x107/0x167 lib/dump_stack.c:123 print_address_description.constprop.0+0x19/0x170 mm/kasan/report.c:400 __kasan_report.cold+0x6c/0x84 mm/kasan/report.c:560 kasan_report+0x3a/0x50 mm/kasan/report.c:585 __kuid_val include/linux/uidgid.h:36 [inline] uid_eq include/linux/uidgid.h:63 [inline] key_task_permission+0x394/0x410 security/keys/permission.c:54 search_nested_keyrings+0x90e/0xe90 security/keys/keyring.c:793

This issue was also reported by syzbot.

It can be reproduced by following these steps(more details [1]):

Obtain more than 32 inputs that have similar hashes which ends with the pattern ‘0xxxxxxxe6’.
Reboot and add the keys obtained in step 1.

The reproducer demonstrates how this issue happened:

In the search_nested_keyrings function when it iterates through the slots in a node(below tag ascend_to_node) if the slot pointer is meta and node->back_pointer != NULL(it means a root) it will proceed to descend_to_node. However there is an exception. If node is the root and one of the slots points to a shortcut it will be treated as a keyring.
Whether the ptr is keyring decided by keyring_ptr_is_keyring function. However KEYRING_PTR_SUBTYPE is 0x2UL the same as ASSOC_ARRAY_PTR_SUBTYPE_MASK.
When 32 keys with the similar hashes are added to the tree the ROOT has keys with hashes that are not similar (e.g. slot 0) and it splits NODE A without using a shortcut. When NODE A is filled with keys that all hashes are xxe6 the keys are similar NODE A will split with a shortcut. Finally it forms the tree as shown below where slot 6 points to a shortcut.
```
               NODE A
       +------>+---+
```
ROOT | | 0 | xxe6 +—+ | +—+ xxxx | 0 | shortcut : : xxe6 +—+ | +—+ xxe6 : : | | | xxe6 +—+ | +—+ | 6 |—+ : : xxe6 +—+ +—+ xxe6 : : | f | xxe6 +—+ +—+ xxe6 | f | +—+
As mentioned above If a slot(slot 6) of the root points to a shortcut it may be mistakenly transferred to a key leading to a read out-of-bounds read.

To fix this issue one should jump to descend_to_node if the ptr is a shortcut regardless of whether the node is root or not.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kernel/1cfa878e-8c7b-4570-8606-21daf5e13ce7@huaweicloud.com/

[jarkko: tweaked the commit message a bit to have an appropriate closes tag.]

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