[PATCH][next] ima: ima_modsig: Fix use-after-free bug in ima_read_modsig

Gustavo A. R. Silva gustavo at embeddedor.com
Sun Aug 11 23:55:07 UTC 2019


hdr is being freed and then dereferenced by accessing hdr->pkcs7_msg

Fix this by copying the value returned by PTR_ERR(hdr->pkcs7_msg) into
automatic variable err for its safe use after freeing hdr.

Addresses-Coverity-ID: 1485813 ("Read from pointer after free")
Fixes: 39b07096364a ("ima: Implement support for module-style appended signatures")
Signed-off-by: Gustavo A. R. Silva <gustavo at embeddedor.com>
---
 security/integrity/ima/ima_modsig.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/security/integrity/ima/ima_modsig.c b/security/integrity/ima/ima_modsig.c
index c412e31d1714..e681d4326145 100644
--- a/security/integrity/ima/ima_modsig.c
+++ b/security/integrity/ima/ima_modsig.c
@@ -91,8 +91,9 @@ int ima_read_modsig(enum ima_hooks func, const void *buf, loff_t buf_len,
 
 	hdr->pkcs7_msg = pkcs7_parse_message(buf + buf_len, sig_len);
 	if (IS_ERR(hdr->pkcs7_msg)) {
+		int err = PTR_ERR(hdr->pkcs7_msg);
 		kfree(hdr);
-		return PTR_ERR(hdr->pkcs7_msg);
+		return err;
 	}
 
 	memcpy(hdr->raw_pkcs7, buf + buf_len, sig_len);
-- 
2.22.0



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