CVE-2014-1690 (published 2014-02-28T06:18Z)

The help function in net/netfilter/nf_nat_irc.c in the Linux kernel before 3.12.8 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information from kernel memory by establishing an IRC DCC session in which incorrect packet data is transmitted during use of the NAT mangle feature.

Severity: LOW
CVSS v2 base score: 2.6 (AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

Weakness information:
cwe_id: CWE-200
cwe_name: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
description: The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information.
extended_description: 
	   There are many different kinds of mistakes that introduce information exposures. The severity of the error can range widely, depending on the context in which the product operates, the type of sensitive information that is revealed, and the benefits it may provide to an attacker.  Some kinds of sensitive information include:
       
         private, personal information, such as personal messages, financial data, health records, geographic location, or contact details
         system status and environment, such as the operating system and installed packages
		 business secrets and intellectual property
		 network status and configuration
		 the product's own code or internal state
         metadata, e.g. logging of connections or message headers
		 indirect information, such as a discrepancy between two internal operations that can be observed by an outsider
       
	    Information might be sensitive to different parties, each of which may have their own expectations for whether the information should be protected.  These parties include:
               
                  the product's own users
                  people or organizations whose information is created or used by the product, even if they are not direct product users
		  the product's administrators, including the admins of the system(s) and/or networks on which the product operates
                  the developer
               
	    Information exposures can occur in different ways:
               
                  the code explicitly inserts sensitive information into resources or messages that are intentionally made accessible to unauthorized actors, but should not contain the information - i.e., the information should have been "scrubbed" or "sanitized"
                  a different weakness or mistake indirectly inserts the sensitive information into resources, such as a web script error revealing the full system path of the program.
                  the code manages resources that intentionally contain sensitive information, but the resources are unintentionally made accessible to unauthorized actors. In this case, the information exposure is resultant - i.e., a different weakness enabled the access to the information in the first place.
               
	    It is common practice to describe any loss of confidentiality as an "information exposure," but this can lead to overuse of CWE-200 in CWE mapping. From the CWE perspective, loss of confidentiality is a technical impact that can arise from dozens of different weaknesses, such as insecure file permissions or out-of-bounds read.  CWE-200 and its lower-level descendants are intended to cover the mistakes that occur in behaviors that explicitly manage, store, transfer, or cleanse sensitive information.
         
         

Fix information:
repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
commit_details: repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
author: Daniel Borkmann
author_date: 2013-12-31 16:28:39+01:00
msg: netfilter: nf_nat: fix access to uninitialized buffer in IRC NAT helper

Commit 5901b6be885e attempted to introduce IPv6 support into
IRC NAT helper. By doing so, the following code seemed to be removed
by accident:

  ip = ntohl(exp->master->tuplehash[IP_CT_DIR_REPLY].tuple.dst.u3.ip);
  sprintf(buffer, "%u %u", ip, port);
  pr_debug("nf_nat_irc: inserting '%s' == %pI4, port %u\n", buffer, &ip, port);

This leads to the fact that buffer[] was left uninitialized and
contained some stack value. When we call nf_nat_mangle_tcp_packet(),
we call strlen(buffer) on excatly this uninitialized buffer. If we
are unlucky and the skb has enough tailroom, we overwrite resp. leak
contents with values that sit on our stack into the packet and send
that out to the receiver.

Since the rather informal DCC spec [1] does not seem to specify
IPv6 support right now, we log such occurences so that admins can
act accordingly, and drop the packet. I've looked into XChat source,
and IPv6 is not supported there: addresses are in u32 and print
via %u format string.

Therefore, restore old behaviour as in IPv4, use snprintf(). The
IRC helper does not support IPv6 by now. By this, we can safely use
strlen(buffer) in nf_nat_mangle_tcp_packet() and prevent a buffer
overflow. Also simplify some code as we now have ct variable anyway.

  [1] http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/rfc/ctcpspec.html

Fixes: 5901b6be885e ("netfilter: nf_nat: support IPv6 in IRC NAT helper")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@redhat.com>
Cc: Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
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: nf_nat_irc.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -34,10 +34,14 @@ static unsigned int help(struct sk_buff *skb,
 			 struct nf_conntrack_expect *exp)
 {
 	char buffer[sizeof("4294967296 65635")];
+	struct nf_conn *ct = exp->master;
+	union nf_inet_addr newaddr;
 	u_int16_t port;
 	unsigned int ret;
 
 	/* Reply comes from server. */
+	newaddr = ct->tuplehash[IP_CT_DIR_REPLY].tuple.dst.u3;
+
 	exp->saved_proto.tcp.port = exp->tuple.dst.u.tcp.port;
 	exp->dir = IP_CT_DIR_REPLY;
 	exp->expectfn = nf_nat_follow_master;
@@ -57,17 +61,35 @@ static unsigned int help(struct sk_buff *skb,
 	}
 
 	if (port == 0) {
-		nf_ct_helper_log(skb, exp->master, "all ports in use");
+		nf_ct_helper_log(skb, ct, "all ports in use");
 		return NF_DROP;
 	}
 
-	ret = nf_nat_mangle_tcp_packet(skb, exp->master, ctinfo,
-				       protoff, matchoff, matchlen, buffer,
-				       strlen(buffer));
+	/* strlen("\1DCC CHAT chat AAAAAAAA P\1\n")=27
+	 * strlen("\1DCC SCHAT chat AAAAAAAA P\1\n")=28
+	 * strlen("\1DCC SEND F AAAAAAAA P S\1\n")=26
+	 * strlen("\1DCC MOVE F AAAAAAAA P S\1\n")=26
+	 * strlen("\1DCC TSEND F AAAAAAAA P S\1\n")=27
+	 *
+	 * AAAAAAAAA: bound addr (1.0.0.0==16777216, min 8 digits,
+	 *                        255.255.255.255==4294967296, 10 digits)
+	 * P:         bound port (min 1 d, max 5d (65635))
+	 * F:         filename   (min 1 d )
+	 * S:         size       (min 1 d )
+	 * 0x01, \n:  terminators
+	 */
+	/* AAA = "us", ie. where server normally talks to. */
+	snprintf(buffer, sizeof(buffer), "%u %u", ntohl(newaddr.ip), port);
+	pr_debug("nf_nat_irc: inserting '%s' == %pI4, port %u\n",
+		 buffer, &newaddr.ip, port);
+
+	ret = nf_nat_mangle_tcp_packet(skb, ct, ctinfo, protoff, matchoff,
+				       matchlen, buffer, strlen(buffer));
 	if (ret != NF_ACCEPT) {
-		nf_ct_helper_log(skb, exp->master, "cannot mangle packet");
+		nf_ct_helper_log(skb, ct, "cannot mangle packet");
 		nf_ct_unexpect_related(exp);
 	}
+
 	return ret;
 }
 

programming_language: C