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Eric Biggers 1a1f7f726b PKCS#7: fix certificate chain verification 
commit 971b42c038 upstream.

When pkcs7_verify_sig_chain() is building the certificate chain for a
SignerInfo using the certificates in the PKCS#7 message, it is passing
the wrong arguments to public_key_verify_signature().  Consequently,
when the next certificate is supposed to be used to verify the previous
certificate, the next certificate is actually used to verify itself.

An attacker can use this bug to create a bogus certificate chain that
has no cryptographic relationship between the beginning and end.

Fortunately I couldn't quite find a way to use this to bypass the
overall signature verification, though it comes very close.  Here's the
reasoning: due to the bug, every certificate in the chain beyond the
first actually has to be self-signed (where "self-signed" here refers to
the actual key and signature; an attacker might still manipulate the
certificate fields such that the self_signed flag doesn't actually get
set, and thus the chain doesn't end immediately).  But to pass trust
validation (pkcs7_validate_trust()), either the SignerInfo or one of the
certificates has to actually be signed by a trusted key.  Since only
self-signed certificates can be added to the chain, the only way for an
attacker to introduce a trusted signature is to include a self-signed
trusted certificate.

But, when pkcs7_validate_trust_one() reaches that certificate, instead
of trying to verify the signature on that certificate, it will actually
look up the corresponding trusted key, which will succeed, and then try
to verify the *previous* certificate, which will fail.  Thus, disaster
is narrowly averted (as far as I could tell).

Fixes: 6c2dc5ae4a ("X.509: Extract signature digest and make self-signed cert checks earlier")
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v4.7+
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2018-02-28 10:19:39 +01:00
arch MIPS: Drop spurious __unused in struct compat_flock 2018-02-28 10:19:38 +01:00
block blk_rq_map_user_iov: fix error override 2018-02-25 11:07:49 +01:00
certs License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
crypto PKCS#7: fix certificate chain verification 2018-02-28 10:19:39 +01:00
Documentation ext4: correct documentation for grpid mount option 2018-02-22 15:42:26 +01:00
drivers i2c: bcm2835: Set up the rising/falling edge delays 2018-02-28 10:19:39 +01:00
firmware License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
fs btrfs: Fix possible off-by-one in btrfs_search_path_in_tree 2018-02-25 11:08:00 +01:00
include kconfig.h: Include compiler types to avoid missed struct attributes 2018-02-28 10:19:38 +01:00
init kmemcheck: stop using GFP_NOTRACK and SLAB_NOTRACK 2018-02-22 15:42:23 +01:00
ipc License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
kernel locking/lockdep: Fix possible NULL deref 2018-02-25 11:08:00 +01:00
lib 509: fix printing uninitialized stack memory when OID is empty 2018-02-25 11:08:01 +01:00
mm vmalloc: fix __GFP_HIGHMEM usage for vmalloc_32 on 32b systems 2018-02-25 11:08:04 +01:00
net cfg80211: fix cfg80211_beacon_dup 2018-02-28 10:19:39 +01:00
samples samples/bpf: adjust rlimit RLIMIT_MEMLOCK for xdp1 2017-12-20 10:10:31 +01:00
scripts scripts/kernel-doc: Don't fail with status != 0 if error encountered with -none 2018-02-25 11:07:58 +01:00
security selinux: skip bounded transition processing if the policy isn't loaded 2018-02-25 11:07:49 +01:00
sound ASoC: rsnd: ssi: fix race condition in rsnd_ssi_pointer_update 2018-02-25 11:08:02 +01:00
tools perf test: Fix test 21 for s390x 2018-02-25 11:07:55 +01:00
usr initramfs: fix initramfs rebuilds w/ compression after disabling 2017-11-03 07:39:19 -07:00
virt KVM: arm/arm64: Fix spinlock acquisition in vgic_set_owner 2018-02-25 11:07:56 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore kbuild: rpm-pkg: keep spec file until make mrproper 2018-02-13 10:19:46 +01:00
.mailmap .mailmap: Add Maciej W. Rozycki's Imagination e-mail address 2017-11-10 12:16:15 -08:00
COPYING [PATCH] update FSF address in COPYING 2005-09-10 10:06:29 -07:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: update TPM driver infrastructure changes 2017-11-09 17:58:40 -08:00
Kbuild License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
Kconfig License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no license 2017-11-02 11:10:55 +01:00
MAINTAINERS kmemcheck: rip it out 2018-02-22 15:42:24 +01:00
Makefile Linux 4.14.22 2018-02-25 11:08:04 +01:00
README README: add a new README file, pointing to the Documentation/ 2016-10-24 08:12:35 -02:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst

Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users.
These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.