CVE-2015-8543 (published 2015-12-28T11:59Z)

The networking implementation in the Linux kernel through 4.3.3, as used in Android and other products, does not validate protocol identifiers for certain protocol families, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL function pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly gain privileges by leveraging CLONE_NEWUSER support to execute a crafted SOCK_RAW application.

Severity: MEDIUM
CVSS v2 base score: 6.9 (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
CVSS v3 base score: 7.0, HIGH (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Weakness information:
cwe_id: NVD-CWE-Other
cwe_name: Other
description: NVD is only using a subset of CWE for mapping instead of the entire CWE, and the weakness type is not covered by that subset.
extended_description: Insufficient Information

Fix information:
repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
commit_details: repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
author: Hannes Frederic Sowa
author_date: 2015-12-14 22:03:39+01:00
msg: net: add validation for the socket syscall protocol argument

郭永刚 reported that one could simply crash the kernel as root by
using a simple program:

	int socket_fd;
	struct sockaddr_in addr;
	addr.sin_port = 0;
	addr.sin_addr.s_addr = INADDR_ANY;
	addr.sin_family = 10;

	socket_fd = socket(10,3,0x40000000);
	connect(socket_fd , &addr,16);

AF_INET, AF_INET6 sockets actually only support 8-bit protocol
identifiers. inet_sock's skc_protocol field thus is sized accordingly,
thus larger protocol identifiers simply cut off the higher bits and
store a zero in the protocol fields.

This could lead to e.g. NULL function pointer because as a result of
the cut off inet_num is zero and we call down to inet_autobind, which
is NULL for raw sockets.

kernel: Call Trace:
kernel:  [<ffffffff816db90e>] ? inet_autobind+0x2e/0x70
kernel:  [<ffffffff816db9a4>] inet_dgram_connect+0x54/0x80
kernel:  [<ffffffff81645069>] SYSC_connect+0xd9/0x110
kernel:  [<ffffffff810ac51b>] ? ptrace_notify+0x5b/0x80
kernel:  [<ffffffff810236d8>] ? syscall_trace_enter_phase2+0x108/0x200
kernel:  [<ffffffff81645e0e>] SyS_connect+0xe/0x10
kernel:  [<ffffffff81779515>] tracesys_phase2+0x84/0x89

I found no particular commit which introduced this problem.

CVE: CVE-2015-8543
Cc: Cong Wang <cwang@twopensource.com>
Reported-by: 郭永刚 <guoyonggang@360.cn>
Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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: sock.h
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -403,6 +403,7 @@ struct sock {
 				sk_no_check_rx : 1,
 				sk_userlocks : 4,
 				sk_protocol  : 8,
+#define SK_PROTOCOL_MAX U8_MAX
 				sk_type      : 16;
 	kmemcheck_bitfield_end(flags);
 	int			sk_wmem_queued;

programming_language: C
filename: af_ax25.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -805,6 +805,9 @@ static int ax25_create(struct net *net, struct socket *sock, int protocol,
 	struct sock *sk;
 	ax25_cb *ax25;
 
+	if (protocol < 0 || protocol > SK_PROTOCOL_MAX)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	if (!net_eq(net, &init_net))
 		return -EAFNOSUPPORT;
 

programming_language: C
filename: af_decnet.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -678,6 +678,9 @@ static int dn_create(struct net *net, struct socket *sock, int protocol,
 {
 	struct sock *sk;
 
+	if (protocol < 0 || protocol > SK_PROTOCOL_MAX)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	if (!net_eq(net, &init_net))
 		return -EAFNOSUPPORT;
 

programming_language: C
filename: af_inet.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -257,6 +257,9 @@ static int inet_create(struct net *net, struct socket *sock, int protocol,
 	int try_loading_module = 0;
 	int err;
 
+	if (protocol < 0 || protocol >= IPPROTO_MAX)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	sock->state = SS_UNCONNECTED;
 
 	/* Look for the requested type/protocol pair. */

programming_language: C
filename: af_inet6.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -109,6 +109,9 @@ static int inet6_create(struct net *net, struct socket *sock, int protocol,
 	int try_loading_module = 0;
 	int err;
 
+	if (protocol < 0 || protocol >= IPPROTO_MAX)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	/* Look for the requested type/protocol pair. */
 lookup_protocol:
 	err = -ESOCKTNOSUPPORT;

programming_language: C
filename: af_irda.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -1086,6 +1086,9 @@ static int irda_create(struct net *net, struct socket *sock, int protocol,
 	struct sock *sk;
 	struct irda_sock *self;
 
+	if (protocol < 0 || protocol > SK_PROTOCOL_MAX)
+		return -EINVAL;
+
 	if (net != &init_net)
 		return -EAFNOSUPPORT;
 

programming_language: C