CVE-2012-3430 (C, published 2012-10-03T11:02Z)
Description: value: The rds_recvmsg function in net/rds/recv.c in the Linux kernel before 3.0.44 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a (1) recvfrom or (2) recvmsg system call on an RDS socket.
Severity: LOW (CVSS v3 base score: )
Weakness: CWE-200 \u2014 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information.
Repository: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
Files changed:
net/rds/recv.c
Commit message: rds: set correct msg_namelen

Jay Fenlason (fenlason@redhat.com) found a bug,
that recvfrom() on an RDS socket can return the contents of random kernel
memory to userspace if it was called with a address length larger than
sizeof(struct sockaddr_in).
rds_recvmsg() also fails to set the addr_len paramater properly before
returning, but that's just a bug.
There are also a number of cases wher recvfrom() can return an entirely bogus
address. Anything in rds_recvmsg() that returns a non-negative value but does
not go through the "sin = (struct sockaddr_in *)msg->msg_name;" code path
at the end of the while(1) loop will return up to 128 bytes of kernel memory
to userspace.

And I write two test programs to reproduce this bug, you will see that in
rds_server, fromAddr will be overwritten and the following sock_fd will be
destroyed.
Yes, it is the programmer's fault to set msg_namelen incorrectly, but it is
better to make the kernel copy the real length of address to user space in
such case.

How to run the test programs ?
I test them on 32bit x86 system, 3.5.0-rc7.

1 compile
gcc -o rds_client rds_client.c
gcc -o rds_server rds_server.c

2 run ./rds_server on one console

3 run ./rds_client on another console

4 you will see something like:
server is waiting to receive data...
old socket fd=3
server received data from client:data from client
msg.msg_namelen=32
new socket fd=-1067277685
sendmsg()
: Bad file descriptor

/***************** rds_client.c ********************/

int main(void)
{
	int sock_fd;
	struct sockaddr_in serverAddr;
	struct sockaddr_in toAddr;
	char recvBuffer[128] = "data from client";
	struct msghdr msg;
	struct iovec iov;

	sock_fd = socket(AF_RDS, SOCK_SEQPACKET, 0);
	if (sock_fd < 0) {
		perror("create socket error\n");
		exit(1);
	}

	memset(&serverAddr, 0, sizeof(serverAddr));
	serverAddr.sin_family = AF_INET;
	serverAddr.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr("127.0.0.1");
	serverAddr.sin_port = htons(4001);

	if (bind(sock_fd, (struct sockaddr*)&serverAddr, sizeof(serverAddr)) < 0) {
		perror("bind() error\n");
		close(sock_fd);
		exit(1);
	}

	memset(&toAddr, 0, sizeof(toAddr));
	toAddr.sin_family = AF_INET;
	toAddr.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr("127.0.0.1");
	toAddr.sin_port = htons(4000);
	msg.msg_name = &toAddr;
	msg.msg_namelen = sizeof(toAddr);
	msg.msg_iov = &iov;
	msg.msg_iovlen = 1;
	msg.msg_iov->iov_base = recvBuffer;
	msg.msg_iov->iov_len = strlen(recvBuffer) + 1;
	msg.msg_control = 0;
	msg.msg_controllen = 0;
	msg.msg_flags = 0;

	if (sendmsg(sock_fd, &msg, 0) == -1) {
		perror("sendto() error\n");
		close(sock_fd);
		exit(1);
	}

	printf("client send data:%s\n", recvBuffer);

	memset(recvBuffer, '\0', 128);

	msg.msg_name = &toAddr;
	msg.msg_namelen = sizeof(toAddr);
	msg.msg_iov = &iov;
	msg.msg_iovlen = 1;
	msg.msg_iov->iov_base = recvBuffer;
	msg.msg_iov->iov_len = 128;
	msg.msg_control = 0;
	msg.msg_controllen = 0;
	msg.msg_flags = 0;
	if (recvmsg(sock_fd, &msg, 0) == -1) {
		perror("recvmsg() error\n");
		close(sock_fd);
		exit(1);
	}

	printf("receive data from server:%s\n", recvBuffer);

	close(sock_fd);

	return 0;
}

/***************** rds_server.c ********************/

int main(void)
{
	struct sockaddr_in fromAddr;
	int sock_fd;
	struct sockaddr_in serverAddr;
	unsigned int addrLen;
	char recvBuffer[128];
	struct msghdr msg;
	struct iovec iov;

	sock_fd = socket(AF_RDS, SOCK_SEQPACKET, 0);
	if(sock_fd < 0) {
		perror("create socket error\n");
		exit(0);
	}

	memset(&serverAddr, 0, sizeof(serverAddr));
	serverAddr.sin_family = AF_INET;
	serverAddr.sin_addr.s_addr = inet_addr("127.0.0.1");
	serverAddr.sin_port = htons(4000);
	if (bind(sock_fd, (struct sockaddr*)&serverAddr, sizeof(serverAddr)) < 0) {
		perror("bind error\n");
		close(sock_fd);
		exit(1);
	}

	printf("server is waiting to receive data...\n");
	msg.msg_name = &fromAddr;

	/*
	 * I add 16 to sizeof(fromAddr), ie 32,
	 * and pay attention to the definition of fromAddr,
	 * recvmsg() will overwrite sock_fd,
	 * since kernel will copy 32 bytes to userspace.
	 *
	 * If you just use sizeof(fromAddr), it works fine.
	 * */
	msg.msg_namelen = sizeof(fromAddr) + 16;
	/* msg.msg_namelen = sizeof(fromAddr); */
	msg.msg_iov = &iov;
	msg.msg_iovlen = 1;
	msg.msg_iov->iov_base = recvBuffer;
	msg.msg_iov->iov_len = 128;
	msg.msg_control = 0;
	msg.msg_controllen = 0;
	msg.msg_flags = 0;

	while (1) {
		printf("old socket fd=%d\n", sock_fd);
		if (recvmsg(sock_fd, &msg, 0) == -1) {
			perror("recvmsg() error\n");
			close(sock_fd);
			exit(1);
		}
		printf("server received data from client:%s\n", recvBuffer);
		printf("msg.msg_namelen=%d\n", msg.msg_namelen);
		printf("new socket fd=%d\n", sock_fd);
		strcat(recvBuffer, "--data from server");
		if (sendmsg(sock_fd, &msg, 0) == -1) {
			perror("sendmsg()\n");
			close(sock_fd);
			exit(1);
		}
	}

	close(sock_fd);
	return 0;
}

Signed-off-by: Weiping Pan <wpan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>


Vulnerable code:

Fixed code:
	msg->msg_namelen = 0;

			msg->msg_namelen = sizeof(*sin);