CVE-2016-8650 (C, published 2016-11-28T03:59Z)
Description: value: The mpi_powm function in lib/mpi/mpi-pow.c in the Linux kernel through 4.8.11 does not ensure that memory is allocated for limb data, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (stack memory corruption and panic) via an add_key system call for an RSA key with a zero exponent.
Severity: MEDIUM (CVSS v3 base score: 5.5)
Weakness: CWE-20 \u2014 Improper Input Validation
The product receives input or data, but it does
        not validate or incorrectly validates that the input has the
        properties that are required to process the data safely and
        correctly.
Repository: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
Files changed:
lib/mpi/mpi-pow.c
Commit message: mpi: Fix NULL ptr dereference in mpi_powm() [ver #3]

This fixes CVE-2016-8650.

If mpi_powm() is given a zero exponent, it wants to immediately return
either 1 or 0, depending on the modulus.  However, if the result was
initalised with zero limb space, no limbs space is allocated and a
NULL-pointer exception ensues.

Fix this by allocating a minimal amount of limb space for the result when
the 0-exponent case when the result is 1 and not touching the limb space
when the result is 0.

This affects the use of RSA keys and X.509 certificates that carry them.

BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at           (null)
IP: [<ffffffff8138ce5d>] mpi_powm+0x32/0x7e6
PGD 0
Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP
Modules linked in:
CPU: 3 PID: 3014 Comm: keyctl Not tainted 4.9.0-rc6-fscache+ #278
Hardware name: ASUS All Series/H97-PLUS, BIOS 2306 10/09/2014
task: ffff8804011944c0 task.stack: ffff880401294000
RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8138ce5d>]  [<ffffffff8138ce5d>] mpi_powm+0x32/0x7e6
RSP: 0018:ffff880401297ad8  EFLAGS: 00010212
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88040868bec0 RCX: ffff88040868bba0
RDX: ffff88040868b260 RSI: ffff88040868bec0 RDI: ffff88040868bee0
RBP: ffff880401297ba8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000047 R11: ffffffff8183b210 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: ffff8804087c7600 R14: 000000000000001f R15: ffff880401297c50
FS:  00007f7a7918c700(0000) GS:ffff88041fb80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000000401250000 CR4: 00000000001406e0
Stack:
 ffff88040868bec0 0000000000000020 ffff880401297b00 ffffffff81376cd4
 0000000000000100 ffff880401297b10 ffffffff81376d12 ffff880401297b30
 ffffffff81376f37 0000000000000100 0000000000000000 ffff880401297ba8
Call Trace:
 [<ffffffff81376cd4>] ? __sg_page_iter_next+0x43/0x66
 [<ffffffff81376d12>] ? sg_miter_get_next_page+0x1b/0x5d
 [<ffffffff81376f37>] ? sg_miter_next+0x17/0xbd
 [<ffffffff8138ba3a>] ? mpi_read_raw_from_sgl+0xf2/0x146
 [<ffffffff8132a95c>] rsa_verify+0x9d/0xee
 [<ffffffff8132acca>] ? pkcs1pad_sg_set_buf+0x2e/0xbb
 [<ffffffff8132af40>] pkcs1pad_verify+0xc0/0xe1
 [<ffffffff8133cb5e>] public_key_verify_signature+0x1b0/0x228
 [<ffffffff8133d974>] x509_check_for_self_signed+0xa1/0xc4
 [<ffffffff8133cdde>] x509_cert_parse+0x167/0x1a1
 [<ffffffff8133d609>] x509_key_preparse+0x21/0x1a1
 [<ffffffff8133c3d7>] asymmetric_key_preparse+0x34/0x61
 [<ffffffff812fc9f3>] key_create_or_update+0x145/0x399
 [<ffffffff812fe227>] SyS_add_key+0x154/0x19e
 [<ffffffff81001c2b>] do_syscall_64+0x80/0x191
 [<ffffffff816825e4>] entry_SYSCALL64_slow_path+0x25/0x25
Code: 56 41 55 41 54 53 48 81 ec a8 00 00 00 44 8b 71 04 8b 42 04 4c 8b 67 18 45 85 f6 89 45 80 0f 84 b4 06 00 00 85 c0 75 2f 41 ff ce <49> c7 04 24 01 00 00 00 b0 01 75 0b 48 8b 41 18 48 83 38 01 0f
RIP  [<ffffffff8138ce5d>] mpi_powm+0x32/0x7e6
 RSP <ffff880401297ad8>
CR2: 0000000000000000
---[ end trace d82015255d4a5d8d ]---

Basically, this is a backport of a libgcrypt patch:

	http://git.gnupg.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=libgcrypt.git;a=patch;h=6e1adb05d290aeeb1c230c763970695f4a538526

Fixes: cdec9cb5167a ("crypto: GnuPG based MPI lib - source files (part 1)")
Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
cc: Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@gmail.com>
cc: linux-ima-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>


Vulnerable code:
		rp[0] = 1;

Fixed code:
		if (res->nlimbs) {
			if (mpi_resize(res, 1) < 0)
				goto enomem;
			rp = res->d;
			rp[0] = 1;
		}