[pacman-dev] [Patch 1/1] Fix CVE-2016-5434 (DoS/loop and out of boundary read)

Nils Freydank holgersson at posteo.de
Tue Sep 5 16:04:11 UTC 2017


This is an update to fix style issues (indentation, newlines etc.) that were addressed on IRC.

Original message:
>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 size_t length_check() and applies it to 
>libalpm/signing.c and signing.h.
>
>Feedback is very appreciated.
>
>
>[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

diff --git a/lib/libalpm/signing.c b/lib/libalpm/signing.c
index 95cb3280..3a907bb8 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 */
+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
@@ -1022,18 +1035,41 @@ int SYMEXPORT alpm_extract_keyid(alpm_handle_t *handle, const char *identifier,
 
 		switch(sig[pos] & 0x03) {
 			case 0:
-				blen = sig[pos + 1];
-				pos = pos + 2;
+				if(length_check(len, pos, 1, handle, identifier)) {
+					return -1;
+				} else {
+					blen = sig[pos + 1];
+				}
+				if(length_check(len, pos, 2, handle, identifier)) {
+					return -1;
+				} else {
+					pos = pos + 2;
+				}
 				break;
-
 			case 1:
-				blen = (sig[pos + 1] << 8) | sig[pos + 2];
-				pos = pos + 3;
+				if(length_check(len, pos, 2, handle, identifier)) {
+					return -1;
+				} else {
+					blen = (sig[pos + 1] << 8) | sig[pos + 2];
+				}
+				if(length_check(len, pos, 3, handle, identifier)) {
+					return -1;
+				} else {
+					pos = pos + 3;
+				}
 				break;
 
 			case 2:
-				blen = (sig[pos + 1] << 24) | (sig[pos + 2] << 16) | (sig[pos + 3] << 8) | sig[pos + 4];
-				pos = pos + 5;
+				if(length_check(len, pos, 4, handle, identifier)) {
+					return -1;
+				} else {
+					blen = (sig[pos + 1] << 24) | (sig[pos + 2] << 16) | (sig[pos + 3] << 8) | sig[pos + 4];
+				}
+				if(length_check(len, pos, 5, handle, identifier)) {
+					return -1;
+				} else {
+					pos = pos + 5;
+				}
 				break;
 
 			case 3:
@@ -1057,43 +1093,99 @@ int SYMEXPORT alpm_extract_keyid(alpm_handle_t *handle, const char *identifier,
 			return -1;
 		}
 
-		pos = pos + 4;
+		if(length_check(len, pos, 4, handle, identifier)) {
+			return -1;
+		} else {
+			pos = pos + 4;
+		}
 
-		hlen = (sig[pos] << 8) | sig[pos + 1];
-		pos = pos + hlen + 2;
+		if(length_check(len, pos, 1, handle, identifier)) {
+			return -1;
+		} else {
+			hlen = (sig[pos] << 8) | sig[pos + 1];
+		}
 
-		ulen = (sig[pos] << 8) | sig[pos + 1];
-		pos = pos + 2;
+		if(length_check(len, pos, 2, handle, identifier)) {
+			return -1;
+		} else {
+			pos = pos + hlen + 2;
+		}
 
-		spos = pos;
+		if(length_check(len, pos, 1, handle, identifier)) {
+			return -1;
+		} else {
+			ulen = (sig[pos] << 8) | sig[pos + 1];
+		}
 
-		while(spos < pos + ulen) {
-			if(sig[spos] < 192) {
-				slen = sig[spos];
-				spos = spos + 1;
-			} else if(sig[spos] < 255) {
-				slen = (sig[spos] << 8) | sig[spos + 1];
-				spos = spos + 2;
-			} else {
-				slen = (sig[spos + 1] << 24) | (sig[spos + 2] << 16) | (sig[spos + 3] << 8) | sig[spos + 4];
-				spos = spos + 5;
-			}
+		if(length_check(len, pos, 2, handle, identifier)) {
+			return -1;
+		} else {
+			pos = pos + 2;
+		}
 
-			if(sig[spos] == 16) {
-				/* issuer key ID */
-				char key[17];
-				size_t i;
-				for (i = 0; i < 8; i++) {
-					sprintf(&key[i * 2], "%02X", sig[spos + i + 1]);
+		spos = pos;
+
+		if(length_check(len, pos, ulen, handle, identifier)) {
+			return -1;
+		} else {
+			while(spos < pos + ulen) {
+				if(sig[spos] < 192) {
+					slen = sig[spos];
+					if(length_check(len + ulen, spos, 1, handle, identifier)) {
+						return -1;
+					} else {
+						spos = spos + 1;
+					}
+				} else if(sig[spos] < 255) {
+					if(length_check(pos + ulen, spos, 1, handle, identifier))
+					{
+						return -1;
+					} else {
+						slen = (sig[spos] << 8) | sig[spos + 1];
+					}
+					if(length_check(pos + ulen, spos, 2, handle, identifier)) {
+						return -1;
+					} else {
+						spos = spos + 2;
+					}
+				} else {
+					if(length_check(len, pos, 4, handle, identifier)) {
+						return -1;
+					} else {
+						slen = (sig[spos + 1] << 24) | (sig[spos + 2] << 16) | (sig[spos + 3] << 8) | sig[spos + 4];
+					}
+					if(length_check(len, spos, 5, handle, identifier)) {
+						return -1;
+					} else {
+						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;
+					} else {
+						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;
+				} else {
+					spos = spos + slen;
 				}
-				*keys = alpm_list_add(*keys, strdup(key));
-				break;
 			}
-
-			spos = spos + slen;
+			if(length_check( blen, hlen, 8, handle, identifier )) {
+				return -1;
+			} else {
+				pos = pos + (blen - hlen - 8);
+			}
 		}
-
-		pos = pos + (blen - hlen - 8);
 	}
 
 	return 0;
diff --git a/lib/libalpm/signing.h b/lib/libalpm/signing.h
index 3507f584..a67bd900 100644
--- a/lib/libalpm/signing.h
+++ b/lib/libalpm/signing.h
@@ -36,4 +36,6 @@ int _alpm_key_import(alpm_handle_t *handle, const char *fpr);
 
 #endif /* ALPM_SIGNING_H */
 
+size_t length_check(size_t length, size_t position, size_t a,
+		alpm_handle_t *handle, const char *identifier);
 /* vim: set noet: */

-- 
GPG fingerprint: '766B 8122 1342 6912 3401 492A 8B54 D7A3 FF3C DB17'
Holgersson
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