CVE-2017-17053: Use After Free (CWE-416)
value: The init_new_context function in arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h in the Linux kernel before 4.12.10 does not correctly handle errors from LDT table allocation when forking a new process, allowing a local attacker to achieve a use-after-free or possibly have unspecified other impact by running a specially crafted program. This vulnerability only affected kernels built with CONFIG_MODIFY_LDT_SYSCALL=y.
CWE description: The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.
CVSS v3 base score: 7
Published: 2017-11-29T03:29Z
Repository: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
Language: C
Files changed: arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h
Commit date: 2017-08-25 09:55:52 +0200
Commit message: x86/mm: Fix use-after-free of ldt_struct

The following commit:

  39a0526fb3f7 ("x86/mm: Factor out LDT init from context init")

renamed init_new_context() to init_new_context_ldt() and added a new
init_new_context() which calls init_new_context_ldt().  However, the
error code of init_new_context_ldt() was ignored.  Consequently, if a
memory allocation in alloc_ldt_struct() failed during a fork(), the
->context.ldt of the new task remained the same as that of the old task
(due to the memcpy() in dup_mm()).  ldt_struct's are not intended to be
shared, so a use-after-free occurred after one task exited.

Fix the bug by making init_new_context() pass through the error code of
init_new_context_ldt().

This bug was found by syzkaller, which encountered the following splat:

    BUG: KASAN: use-after-free in free_ldt_struct.part.2+0x10a/0x150 arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c:116
    Read of size 4 at addr ffff88006d2cb7c8 by task kworker/u9:0/3710

    CPU: 1 PID: 3710 Comm: kworker/u9:0 Not tainted 4.13.0-rc4-next-20170811 #2
    Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
    Call Trace:
     __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:16 [inline]
     dump_stack+0x194/0x257 lib/dump_stack.c:52
     print_address_description+0x73/0x250 mm/kasan/report.c:252
     kasan_report_error mm/kasan/report.c:351 [inline]
     kasan_report+0x24e/0x340 mm/kasan/report.c:409
     __asan_report_load4_noabort+0x14/0x20 mm/kasan/report.c:429
     free_ldt_struct.part.2+0x10a/0x150 arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c:116
     free_ldt_struct arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c:173 [inline]
     destroy_context_ldt+0x60/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c:171
     destroy_context arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h:157 [inline]
     __mmdrop+0xe9/0x530 kernel/fork.c:889
     mmdrop include/linux/sched/mm.h:42 [inline]
     exec_mmap fs/exec.c:1061 [inline]
     flush_old_exec+0x173c/0x1ff0 fs/exec.c:1291
     load_elf_binary+0x81f/0x4ba0 fs/binfmt_elf.c:855
     search_binary_handler+0x142/0x6b0 fs/exec.c:1652
     exec_binprm fs/exec.c:1694 [inline]
     do_execveat_common.isra.33+0x1746/0x22e0 fs/exec.c:1816
     do_execve+0x31/0x40 fs/exec.c:1860
     call_usermodehelper_exec_async+0x457/0x8f0 kernel/umh.c:100
     ret_from_fork+0x2a/0x40 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:431

    Allocated by task 3700:
     save_stack_trace+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:59
     save_stack+0x43/0xd0 mm/kasan/kasan.c:447
     set_track mm/kasan/kasan.c:459 [inline]
     kasan_kmalloc+0xad/0xe0 mm/kasan/kasan.c:551
     kmem_cache_alloc_trace+0x136/0x750 mm/slab.c:3627
     kmalloc include/linux/slab.h:493 [inline]
     alloc_ldt_struct+0x52/0x140 arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c:67
     write_ldt+0x7b7/0xab0 arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c:277
     sys_modify_ldt+0x1ef/0x240 arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c:307
     entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1f/0xbe

    Freed by task 3700:
     save_stack_trace+0x16/0x20 arch/x86/kernel/stacktrace.c:59
     save_stack+0x43/0xd0 mm/kasan/kasan.c:447
     set_track mm/kasan/kasan.c:459 [inline]
     kasan_slab_free+0x71/0xc0 mm/kasan/kasan.c:524
     __cache_free mm/slab.c:3503 [inline]
     kfree+0xca/0x250 mm/slab.c:3820
     free_ldt_struct.part.2+0xdd/0x150 arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c:121
     free_ldt_struct arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c:173 [inline]
     destroy_context_ldt+0x60/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/ldt.c:171
     destroy_context arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h:157 [inline]
     __mmdrop+0xe9/0x530 kernel/fork.c:889
     mmdrop include/linux/sched/mm.h:42 [inline]
     __mmput kernel/fork.c:916 [inline]
     mmput+0x541/0x6e0 kernel/fork.c:927
     copy_process.part.36+0x22e1/0x4af0 kernel/fork.c:1931
     copy_process kernel/fork.c:1546 [inline]
     _do_fork+0x1ef/0xfb0 kernel/fork.c:2025
     SYSC_clone kernel/fork.c:2135 [inline]
     SyS_clone+0x37/0x50 kernel/fork.c:2129
     do_syscall_64+0x26c/0x8c0 arch/x86/entry/common.c:287
     return_from_SYSCALL_64+0x0/0x7a

Here is a C reproducer:

    #include <asm/ldt.h>
    #include <pthread.h>
    #include <signal.h>
    #include <stdlib.h>
    #include <sys/syscall.h>
    #include <sys/wait.h>
    #include <unistd.h>

    static void *fork_thread(void *_arg)
    {
        fork();
    }

    int main(void)
    {
        struct user_desc desc = { .entry_number = 8191 };

        syscall(__NR_modify_ldt, 1, &desc, sizeof(desc));

        for (;;) {
            if (fork() == 0) {
                pthread_t t;

                srand(getpid());
                pthread_create(&t, NULL, fork_thread, NULL);
                usleep(rand() % 10000);
                syscall(__NR_exit_group, 0);
            }
            wait(NULL);
        }
    }

Note: the reproducer takes advantage of the fact that alloc_ldt_struct()
may use vmalloc() to allocate a large ->entries array, and after
commit:

  5d17a73a2ebe ("vmalloc: back off when the current task is killed")

it is possible for userspace to fail a task's vmalloc() by
sending a fatal signal, e.g. via exit_group().  It would be more
difficult to reproduce this bug on kernels without that commit.

This bug only affected kernels with CONFIG_MODIFY_LDT_SYSCALL=y.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [v4.6+]
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Fixes: 39a0526fb3f7 ("x86/mm: Factor out LDT init from context init")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170824175029.76040-1-ebiggers3@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

Diff: diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h
index 265c907d7d4c9b..7a234be7e29846 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/mmu_context.h
@@ -138,13 +138,11 @@ static inline int init_new_context(struct task_struct *tsk,
 		mm->context.pkey_allocation_map = 0x1;
 		/* -1 means unallocated or invalid */
 		mm->context.execute_only_pkey = -1;
 	}
 	#endif
-	init_new_context_ldt(tsk, mm);
-
-	return 0;
+	return init_new_context_ldt(tsk, mm);
 }
 static inline void destroy_context(struct mm_struct *mm)
 {
 	destroy_context_ldt(mm);
 }

Vulnerable code: 	init_new_context_ldt(tsk, mm);

	return 0;
Fixed code: 	return init_new_context_ldt(tsk, mm);