CVE-2017-17806 (published 2017-12-20T23:29Z)

The HMAC implementation (crypto/hmac.c) in the Linux kernel before 4.14.8 does not validate that the underlying cryptographic hash algorithm is unkeyed, allowing a local attacker able to use the AF_ALG-based hash interface (CONFIG_CRYPTO_USER_API_HASH) and the SHA-3 hash algorithm (CONFIG_CRYPTO_SHA3) to cause a kernel stack buffer overflow by executing a crafted sequence of system calls that encounter a missing SHA-3 initialization.

Severity: HIGH
CVSS v2 base score: 7.2 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
CVSS v3 base score: 7.8, HIGH (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Weakness information:
cwe_id: CWE-787
cwe_name: Out-of-bounds Write
description: The product writes data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer.
extended_description: 
            
            
             
			 
         
         

Fix information:
repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
commit_details: repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
author: Eric Biggers
author_date: 2017-11-28 18:01:38-08:00
msg: crypto: hmac - require that the underlying hash algorithm is unkeyed

Because the HMAC template didn't check that its underlying hash
algorithm is unkeyed, trying to use "hmac(hmac(sha3-512-generic))"
through AF_ALG or through KEYCTL_DH_COMPUTE resulted in the inner HMAC
being used without having been keyed, resulting in sha3_update() being
called without sha3_init(), causing a stack buffer overflow.

This is a very old bug, but it seems to have only started causing real
problems when SHA-3 support was added (requires CONFIG_CRYPTO_SHA3)
because the innermost hash's state is ->import()ed from a zeroed buffer,
and it just so happens that other hash algorithms are fine with that,
but SHA-3 is not.  However, there could be arch or hardware-dependent
hash algorithms also affected; I couldn't test everything.

Fix the bug by introducing a function crypto_shash_alg_has_setkey()
which tests whether a shash algorithm is keyed.  Then update the HMAC
template to require that its underlying hash algorithm is unkeyed.

Here is a reproducer:

    #include <linux/if_alg.h>
    #include <sys/socket.h>

    int main()
    {
        int algfd;
        struct sockaddr_alg addr = {
            .salg_type = "hash",
            .salg_name = "hmac(hmac(sha3-512-generic))",
        };
        char key[4096] = { 0 };

        algfd = socket(AF_ALG, SOCK_SEQPACKET, 0);
        bind(algfd, (const struct sockaddr *)&addr, sizeof(addr));
        setsockopt(algfd, SOL_ALG, ALG_SET_KEY, key, sizeof(key));
    }

Here was the KASAN report from syzbot:

    BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in memcpy include/linux/string.h:341  [inline]
    BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in sha3_update+0xdf/0x2e0  crypto/sha3_generic.c:161
    Write of size 4096 at addr ffff8801cca07c40 by task syzkaller076574/3044

    CPU: 1 PID: 3044 Comm: syzkaller076574 Not tainted 4.14.0-mm1+ #25
    Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS  Google 01/01/2011
    Call Trace:
      __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:17 [inline]
      dump_stack+0x194/0x257 lib/dump_stack.c:53
      print_address_description+0x73/0x250 mm/kasan/report.c:252
      kasan_report_error mm/kasan/report.c:351 [inline]
      kasan_report+0x25b/0x340 mm/kasan/report.c:409
      check_memory_region_inline mm/kasan/kasan.c:260 [inline]
      check_memory_region+0x137/0x190 mm/kasan/kasan.c:267
      memcpy+0x37/0x50 mm/kasan/kasan.c:303
      memcpy include/linux/string.h:341 [inline]
      sha3_update+0xdf/0x2e0 crypto/sha3_generic.c:161
      crypto_shash_update+0xcb/0x220 crypto/shash.c:109
      shash_finup_unaligned+0x2a/0x60 crypto/shash.c:151
      crypto_shash_finup+0xc4/0x120 crypto/shash.c:165
      hmac_finup+0x182/0x330 crypto/hmac.c:152
      crypto_shash_finup+0xc4/0x120 crypto/shash.c:165
      shash_digest_unaligned+0x9e/0xd0 crypto/shash.c:172
      crypto_shash_digest+0xc4/0x120 crypto/shash.c:186
      hmac_setkey+0x36a/0x690 crypto/hmac.c:66
      crypto_shash_setkey+0xad/0x190 crypto/shash.c:64
      shash_async_setkey+0x47/0x60 crypto/shash.c:207
      crypto_ahash_setkey+0xaf/0x180 crypto/ahash.c:200
      hash_setkey+0x40/0x90 crypto/algif_hash.c:446
      alg_setkey crypto/af_alg.c:221 [inline]
      alg_setsockopt+0x2a1/0x350 crypto/af_alg.c:254
      SYSC_setsockopt net/socket.c:1851 [inline]
      SyS_setsockopt+0x189/0x360 net/socket.c:1830
      entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath+0x1f/0x96

Reported-by: syzbot <syzkaller@googlegroups.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
repository: repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
repo_name: torvalds/linux
description: Linux kernel source tree
repo_language: C
owner: torvalds
file_changes: filename: hmac.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -195,11 +195,15 @@ static int hmac_create(struct crypto_template *tmpl, struct rtattr **tb)
 	salg = shash_attr_alg(tb[1], 0, 0);
 	if (IS_ERR(salg))
 		return PTR_ERR(salg);
+	alg = &salg->base;
 
+	/* The underlying hash algorithm must be unkeyed */
 	err = -EINVAL;
+	if (crypto_shash_alg_has_setkey(salg))
+		goto out_put_alg;
+
 	ds = salg->digestsize;
 	ss = salg->statesize;
-	alg = &salg->base;
 	if (ds > alg->cra_blocksize ||
 	    ss < alg->cra_blocksize)
 		goto out_put_alg;

programming_language: C
filename: shash.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -25,11 +25,12 @@
 
 static const struct crypto_type crypto_shash_type;
 
-static int shash_no_setkey(struct crypto_shash *tfm, const u8 *key,
-			   unsigned int keylen)
+int shash_no_setkey(struct crypto_shash *tfm, const u8 *key,
+		    unsigned int keylen)
 {
 	return -ENOSYS;
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(shash_no_setkey);
 
 static int shash_setkey_unaligned(struct crypto_shash *tfm, const u8 *key,
 				  unsigned int keylen)

programming_language: C
filename: hash.h
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -82,6 +82,14 @@ int ahash_register_instance(struct crypto_template *tmpl,
 			    struct ahash_instance *inst);
 void ahash_free_instance(struct crypto_instance *inst);
 
+int shash_no_setkey(struct crypto_shash *tfm, const u8 *key,
+		    unsigned int keylen);
+
+static inline bool crypto_shash_alg_has_setkey(struct shash_alg *alg)
+{
+	return alg->setkey != shash_no_setkey;
+}
+
 int crypto_init_ahash_spawn(struct crypto_ahash_spawn *spawn,
 			    struct hash_alg_common *alg,
 			    struct crypto_instance *inst);

programming_language: C