linux/security
David Howells 1558fc1a01 KEYS: Fix race between read and revoke
commit b4a1b4f504 upstream.

This fixes CVE-2015-7550.

There's a race between keyctl_read() and keyctl_revoke().  If the revoke
happens between keyctl_read() checking the validity of a key and the key's
semaphore being taken, then the key type read method will see a revoked key.

This causes a problem for the user-defined key type because it assumes in
its read method that there will always be a payload in a non-revoked key
and doesn't check for a NULL pointer.

Fix this by making keyctl_read() check the validity of a key after taking
semaphore instead of before.

I think the bug was introduced with the original keyrings code.

This was discovered by a multithreaded test program generated by syzkaller
(http://github.com/google/syzkaller).  Here's a cleaned up version:

	#include <sys/types.h>
	#include <keyutils.h>
	#include <pthread.h>
	void *thr0(void *arg)
	{
		key_serial_t key = (unsigned long)arg;
		keyctl_revoke(key);
		return 0;
	}
	void *thr1(void *arg)
	{
		key_serial_t key = (unsigned long)arg;
		char buffer[16];
		keyctl_read(key, buffer, 16);
		return 0;
	}
	int main()
	{
		key_serial_t key = add_key("user", "%", "foo", 3, KEY_SPEC_USER_KEYRING);
		pthread_t th[5];
		pthread_create(&th[0], 0, thr0, (void *)(unsigned long)key);
		pthread_create(&th[1], 0, thr1, (void *)(unsigned long)key);
		pthread_create(&th[2], 0, thr0, (void *)(unsigned long)key);
		pthread_create(&th[3], 0, thr1, (void *)(unsigned long)key);
		pthread_join(th[0], 0);
		pthread_join(th[1], 0);
		pthread_join(th[2], 0);
		pthread_join(th[3], 0);
		return 0;
	}

Build as:

	cc -o keyctl-race keyctl-race.c -lkeyutils -lpthread

Run as:

	while keyctl-race; do :; done

as it may need several iterations to crash the kernel.  The crash can be
summarised as:

	BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000010
	IP: [<ffffffff81279b08>] user_read+0x56/0xa3
	...
	Call Trace:
	 [<ffffffff81276aa9>] keyctl_read_key+0xb6/0xd7
	 [<ffffffff81277815>] SyS_keyctl+0x83/0xe0
	 [<ffffffff815dbb97>] entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x12/0x6f

Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
Cc: Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@canonical.com>
History 2016-01-05 13:18:04 +00:00
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apparmor nick kvfree() from apparmor 2014-05-06 14:02:53 -04:00
integrity ima: extend "mask" policy matching support 2015-08-27 15:06:54 +01:00
keys KEYS: Fix race between read and revoke 2016-01-05 13:18:04 +00:00
selinux fs: create and use seq_show_option for escaping 2015-09-29 16:44:47 +01:00
smack sysfs: Create mountpoints with sysfs_create_mount_point 2015-08-20 18:24:03 +01:00
tomoyo get rid of pointless checks for NULL ->i_op 2014-04-01 23:19:16 -04:00
yama yama: Better permission check for ptraceme 2013-03-26 13:17:58 -07:00
capability.c Merge tag 'keys-20140314' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dhowells/linux-fs into next 2014-04-14 11:42:49 +10:00
commoncap.c CAPABILITIES: remove undefined caps from all processes 2014-09-17 09:21:53 -07:00
device_cgroup.c device_cgroup: use css_has_online_children() instead of has_children() 2014-05-16 13:22:52 -04:00
inode.c sysfs: Create mountpoints with sysfs_create_mount_point 2015-08-20 18:24:03 +01:00
Kconfig security: select correct default LSM_MMAP_MIN_ADDR on arm on arm64 2014-02-05 14:59:14 +00:00
lsm_audit.c audit: anchor all pid references in the initial pid namespace 2014-03-20 10:11:55 -04:00
Makefile security: cleanup Makefiles to use standard syntax for specifying sub-directories 2014-02-17 11:08:04 +11:00
min_addr.c mmap_min_addr check CAP_SYS_RAWIO only for write 2010-04-23 08:56:31 +10:00
security.c Merge branch 'serge-next-1' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sergeh/linux-security 2014-06-10 10:05:36 -07:00