[pacman-dev] [PATCH] Fix CVE-2016-5434 (DoS/loop and out of boundary read)
Nils Freydank
holgersson at posteo.de
Fri Oct 20 20:42:32 UTC 2017
This is a rewrite of Tobias Stoeckmann’s patch from June 2016[1] using
functions instead of macros. (Thanks to Tobias for explanations of his patch.)
A short question on Freenode IRC showed that macros are generally discouraged
and functions should be used.
The patch introduces a static size_t length_check() in libalpm/signing.c.
[1] Original patch:
https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2016-June/021148.html
CVE request (and assignment):
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2016/q2/526
---
> Not needed. We are heading to a while statement with "spos < pos +
> ulen", so this is auto handled.
-> actually this one is the one that is needed to fix the loop
-> other checks are dropped as asked for
lib/libalpm/signing.c | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 44 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/lib/libalpm/signing.c b/lib/libalpm/signing.c
index 95cb3280..51b11df6 100644
--- a/lib/libalpm/signing.c
+++ b/lib/libalpm/signing.c
@@ -986,6 +986,19 @@ int SYMEXPORT alpm_siglist_cleanup(alpm_siglist_t *siglist)
return 0;
}
+/* Check to avoid out of boundary reads */
+static size_t length_check(size_t length, size_t position, size_t a,
+ alpm_handle_t *handle, const char *identifier)
+{
+ if( a == 0 || length - position <= a) {
+ _alpm_log(handle, ALPM_LOG_ERROR,
+ _("%s: signature format error"), identifier);
+ return -1;
+ } else {
+ return 0;
+ }
+}
+
/**
* Extract the Issuer Key ID from a signature
* @param sig PGP signature
@@ -1022,16 +1035,25 @@ int SYMEXPORT alpm_extract_keyid(alpm_handle_t *handle, const char *identifier,
switch(sig[pos] & 0x03) {
case 0:
+ if(length_check(len, pos, 2, handle, identifier) != 0) {
+ return -1;
+ }
blen = sig[pos + 1];
pos = pos + 2;
break;
case 1:
+ if(length_check(len, pos, 3, handle, identifier)) {
+ return -1;
+ }
blen = (sig[pos + 1] << 8) | sig[pos + 2];
pos = pos + 3;
break;
case 2:
+ if(length_check(len, pos, 5, handle, identifier)) {
+ return -1;
+ }
blen = (sig[pos + 1] << 24) | (sig[pos + 2] << 16) | (sig[pos + 3] << 8) | sig[pos + 4];
pos = pos + 5;
break;
@@ -1059,7 +1081,16 @@ int SYMEXPORT alpm_extract_keyid(alpm_handle_t *handle, const char *identifier,
pos = pos + 4;
+ /* pos got changed above, so an explicit check is necessary
+ * check for 2 as that catches another some lines down */
+ if(length_check(len, pos, 2, handle, identifier)) {
+ return -1;
+ }
hlen = (sig[pos] << 8) | sig[pos + 1];
+
+ if(length_check(len, pos, hlen + 2, handle, identifier)) {
+ return -1;
+ }
pos = pos + hlen + 2;
ulen = (sig[pos] << 8) | sig[pos + 1];
@@ -1072,30 +1103,39 @@ int SYMEXPORT alpm_extract_keyid(alpm_handle_t *handle, const char *identifier,
slen = sig[spos];
spos = spos + 1;
} else if(sig[spos] < 255) {
+ if(length_check(pos + ulen, spos, 2, handle, identifier)){
+ return -1;
+ }
slen = (sig[spos] << 8) | sig[spos + 1];
spos = spos + 2;
} else {
+ /* check for pos and spos, as spos is still pos */
+ if(length_check(len, pos, 5, handle, identifier)) {
+ return -1;
+ }
slen = (sig[spos + 1] << 24) | (sig[spos + 2] << 16) | (sig[spos + 3] << 8) | sig[spos + 4];
spos = spos + 5;
}
-
if(sig[spos] == 16) {
/* issuer key ID */
char key[17];
size_t i;
+ if(length_check(pos + ulen, spos, 8, handle, identifier)) {
+ return -1;
+ }
for (i = 0; i < 8; i++) {
sprintf(&key[i * 2], "%02X", sig[spos + i + 1]);
}
*keys = alpm_list_add(*keys, strdup(key));
break;
}
-
+ if(length_check(pos + ulen + 1, spos, slen, handle, identifier)) {
+ return -1;
+ }
spos = spos + slen;
}
-
pos = pos + (blen - hlen - 8);
}
-
return 0;
}
--
2.14.2
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