[PATCH] capabilities: fix buffer overread on very short xattr

[Eric Biggers]

From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers at google.com>

If userspace attempted to set a "security.capability" xattr shorter than
4 bytes (e.g. 'setfattr -n security.capability -v x file'), then
cap_convert_nscap() read past the end of the buffer containing the xattr
value because it accessed the ->magic_etc field without verifying that
the xattr value is long enough to contain that field.

Fix it by validating the xattr value size first.

This bug was found using syzkaller with KASAN.  The KASAN report was as
follows (cleaned up slightly):

    BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in cap_convert_nscap+0x514/0x630 security/commoncap.c:498
    Read of size 4 at addr ffff88002d8741c0 by task syz-executor1/2852

    CPU: 0 PID: 2852 Comm: syz-executor1 Not tainted 4.15.0-rc6-00200-gcc0aac99d977 #253
    Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.11.0-20171110_100015-anatol 04/01/2014
    Call Trace:
     __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:17 [inline]
     dump_stack+0xe3/0x195 lib/dump_stack.c:53
     print_address_description+0x73/0x260 mm/kasan/report.c:252
     kasan_report_error mm/kasan/report.c:351 [inline]
     kasan_report+0x235/0x350 mm/kasan/report.c:409
     cap_convert_nscap+0x514/0x630 security/commoncap.c:498
     setxattr+0x2bd/0x350 fs/xattr.c:446
     path_setxattr+0x168/0x1b0 fs/xattr.c:472
     SYSC_setxattr fs/xattr.c:487 [inline]
     SyS_setxattr+0x36/0x50 fs/xattr.c:483
     entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x18/0x85

Fixes: 8db6c34f1dbc ("Introduce v3 namespaced file capabilities")
Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org> # v4.14+
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers at google.com>
---
 security/commoncap.c | 21 +++++++++------------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/security/commoncap.c b/security/commoncap.c
index 4f8e09340956..48620c93d697 100644
--- a/security/commoncap.c
+++ b/security/commoncap.c
@@ -348,21 +348,18 @@ static __u32 sansflags(__u32 m)
 	return m & ~VFS_CAP_FLAGS_EFFECTIVE;
 }
 
-static bool is_v2header(size_t size, __le32 magic)
+static bool is_v2header(size_t size, const struct vfs_cap_data *cap)
 {
-	__u32 m = le32_to_cpu(magic);
 	if (size != XATTR_CAPS_SZ_2)
 		return false;
-	return sansflags(m) == VFS_CAP_REVISION_2;
+	return sansflags(le32_to_cpu(cap->magic_etc)) == VFS_CAP_REVISION_2;
 }
 
-static bool is_v3header(size_t size, __le32 magic)
+static bool is_v3header(size_t size, const struct vfs_cap_data *cap)
 {
-	__u32 m = le32_to_cpu(magic);
-
 	if (size != XATTR_CAPS_SZ_3)
 		return false;
-	return sansflags(m) == VFS_CAP_REVISION_3;
+	return sansflags(le32_to_cpu(cap->magic_etc)) == VFS_CAP_REVISION_3;
 }
 
 /*
@@ -405,7 +402,7 @@ int cap_inode_getsecurity(struct inode *inode, const char *name, void **buffer,
 
 	fs_ns = inode->i_sb->s_user_ns;
 	cap = (struct vfs_cap_data *) tmpbuf;
-	if (is_v2header((size_t) ret, cap->magic_etc)) {
+	if (is_v2header((size_t) ret, cap)) {
 		/* If this is sizeof(vfs_cap_data) then we're ok with the
 		 * on-disk value, so return that.  */
 		if (alloc)
@@ -413,7 +410,7 @@ int cap_inode_getsecurity(struct inode *inode, const char *name, void **buffer,
 		else
 			kfree(tmpbuf);
 		return ret;
-	} else if (!is_v3header((size_t) ret, cap->magic_etc)) {
+	} else if (!is_v3header((size_t) ret, cap)) {
 		kfree(tmpbuf);
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
@@ -470,9 +467,9 @@ static kuid_t rootid_from_xattr(const void *value, size_t size,
 	return make_kuid(task_ns, rootid);
 }
 
-static bool validheader(size_t size, __le32 magic)
+static bool validheader(size_t size, const struct vfs_cap_data *cap)
 {
-	return is_v2header(size, magic) || is_v3header(size, magic);
+	return is_v2header(size, cap) || is_v3header(size, cap);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -495,7 +492,7 @@ int cap_convert_nscap(struct dentry *dentry, void **ivalue, size_t size)
 
 	if (!*ivalue)
 		return -EINVAL;
-	if (!validheader(size, cap->magic_etc))
+	if (!validheader(size, cap))
 		return -EINVAL;
 	if (!capable_wrt_inode_uidgid(inode, CAP_SETFCAP))
 		return -EPERM;
-- 
2.15.1

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