CVE-2013-7281 (published 2014-01-08T16:55Z)

The dgram_recvmsg function in net/ieee802154/dgram.c in the Linux kernel before 3.12.4 updates a certain length value without ensuring that an associated data structure has been initialized, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information from kernel stack memory via a (1) recvfrom, (2) recvmmsg, or (3) recvmsg system call.

Severity: MEDIUM
CVSS v2 base score: 4.9 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/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: Hannes Frederic Sowa
author_date: 2013-11-18 04:20:45+01:00
msg: inet: prevent leakage of uninitialized memory to user in recv syscalls

Only update *addr_len when we actually fill in sockaddr, otherwise we
can return uninitialized memory from the stack to the caller in the
recvfrom, recvmmsg and recvmsg syscalls. Drop the the (addr_len == NULL)
checks because we only get called with a valid addr_len pointer either
from sock_common_recvmsg or inet_recvmsg.

If a blocking read waits on a socket which is concurrently shut down we
now return zero and set msg_msgnamelen to 0.

Reported-by: mpb <mpb.mail@gmail.com>
Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
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: dgram.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -315,9 +315,8 @@ static int dgram_recvmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct sock *sk,
 	if (saddr) {
 		saddr->family = AF_IEEE802154;
 		saddr->addr = mac_cb(skb)->sa;
-	}
-	if (addr_len)
 		*addr_len = sizeof(*saddr);
+	}
 
 	if (flags & MSG_TRUNC)
 		copied = skb->len;

programming_language: C
filename: ping.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -830,8 +830,6 @@ int ping_recvmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *msg,
 {
 	struct inet_sock *isk = inet_sk(sk);
 	int family = sk->sk_family;
-	struct sockaddr_in *sin;
-	struct sockaddr_in6 *sin6;
 	struct sk_buff *skb;
 	int copied, err;
 
@@ -841,13 +839,6 @@ int ping_recvmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *msg,
 	if (flags & MSG_OOB)
 		goto out;
 
-	if (addr_len) {
-		if (family == AF_INET)
-			*addr_len = sizeof(*sin);
-		else if (family == AF_INET6 && addr_len)
-			*addr_len = sizeof(*sin6);
-	}
-
 	if (flags & MSG_ERRQUEUE) {
 		if (family == AF_INET) {
 			return ip_recv_error(sk, msg, len);
@@ -877,11 +868,13 @@ int ping_recvmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *msg,
 
 	/* Copy the address and add cmsg data. */
 	if (family == AF_INET) {
-		sin = (struct sockaddr_in *) msg->msg_name;
+		struct sockaddr_in *sin = (struct sockaddr_in *)msg->msg_name;
+
 		sin->sin_family = AF_INET;
 		sin->sin_port = 0 /* skb->h.uh->source */;
 		sin->sin_addr.s_addr = ip_hdr(skb)->saddr;
 		memset(sin->sin_zero, 0, sizeof(sin->sin_zero));
+		*addr_len = sizeof(*sin);
 
 		if (isk->cmsg_flags)
 			ip_cmsg_recv(msg, skb);
@@ -890,17 +883,19 @@ int ping_recvmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *msg,
 	} else if (family == AF_INET6) {
 		struct ipv6_pinfo *np = inet6_sk(sk);
 		struct ipv6hdr *ip6 = ipv6_hdr(skb);
-		sin6 = (struct sockaddr_in6 *) msg->msg_name;
+		struct sockaddr_in6 *sin6 =
+			(struct sockaddr_in6 *)msg->msg_name;
+
 		sin6->sin6_family = AF_INET6;
 		sin6->sin6_port = 0;
 		sin6->sin6_addr = ip6->saddr;
-
 		sin6->sin6_flowinfo = 0;
 		if (np->sndflow)
 			sin6->sin6_flowinfo = ip6_flowinfo(ip6);
 
 		sin6->sin6_scope_id = ipv6_iface_scope_id(&sin6->sin6_addr,
 							  IP6CB(skb)->iif);
+		*addr_len = sizeof(*sin6);
 
 		if (inet6_sk(sk)->rxopt.all)
 			pingv6_ops.ip6_datagram_recv_ctl(sk, msg, skb);

programming_language: C
filename: raw.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -696,9 +696,6 @@ static int raw_recvmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *msg,
 	if (flags & MSG_OOB)
 		goto out;
 
-	if (addr_len)
-		*addr_len = sizeof(*sin);
-
 	if (flags & MSG_ERRQUEUE) {
 		err = ip_recv_error(sk, msg, len);
 		goto out;
@@ -726,6 +723,7 @@ static int raw_recvmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *msg,
 		sin->sin_addr.s_addr = ip_hdr(skb)->saddr;
 		sin->sin_port = 0;
 		memset(&sin->sin_zero, 0, sizeof(sin->sin_zero));
+		*addr_len = sizeof(*sin);
 	}
 	if (inet->cmsg_flags)
 		ip_cmsg_recv(msg, skb);

programming_language: C
filename: udp.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -1235,12 +1235,6 @@ int udp_recvmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *msg,
 	int is_udplite = IS_UDPLITE(sk);
 	bool slow;
 
-	/*
-	 *	Check any passed addresses
-	 */
-	if (addr_len)
-		*addr_len = sizeof(*sin);
-
 	if (flags & MSG_ERRQUEUE)
 		return ip_recv_error(sk, msg, len);
 
@@ -1302,6 +1296,7 @@ int udp_recvmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *msg,
 		sin->sin_port = udp_hdr(skb)->source;
 		sin->sin_addr.s_addr = ip_hdr(skb)->saddr;
 		memset(sin->sin_zero, 0, sizeof(sin->sin_zero));
+		*addr_len = sizeof(*sin);
 	}
 	if (inet->cmsg_flags)
 		ip_cmsg_recv(msg, skb);

programming_language: C
filename: raw.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -465,9 +465,6 @@ static int rawv6_recvmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct sock *sk,
 	if (flags & MSG_OOB)
 		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
 
-	if (addr_len)
-		*addr_len=sizeof(*sin6);
-
 	if (flags & MSG_ERRQUEUE)
 		return ipv6_recv_error(sk, msg, len);
 
@@ -506,6 +503,7 @@ static int rawv6_recvmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct sock *sk,
 		sin6->sin6_flowinfo = 0;
 		sin6->sin6_scope_id = ipv6_iface_scope_id(&sin6->sin6_addr,
 							  IP6CB(skb)->iif);
+		*addr_len = sizeof(*sin6);
 	}
 
 	sock_recv_ts_and_drops(msg, sk, skb);

programming_language: C
filename: udp.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -392,9 +392,6 @@ int udpv6_recvmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct sock *sk,
 	int is_udp4;
 	bool slow;
 
-	if (addr_len)
-		*addr_len = sizeof(struct sockaddr_in6);
-
 	if (flags & MSG_ERRQUEUE)
 		return ipv6_recv_error(sk, msg, len);
 
@@ -480,7 +477,7 @@ int udpv6_recvmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct sock *sk,
 				ipv6_iface_scope_id(&sin6->sin6_addr,
 						    IP6CB(skb)->iif);
 		}
-
+		*addr_len = sizeof(*sin6);
 	}
 	if (is_udp4) {
 		if (inet->cmsg_flags)

programming_language: C
filename: l2tp_ip.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -518,9 +518,6 @@ static int l2tp_ip_recvmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *m
 	if (flags & MSG_OOB)
 		goto out;
 
-	if (addr_len)
-		*addr_len = sizeof(*sin);
-
 	skb = skb_recv_datagram(sk, flags, noblock, &err);
 	if (!skb)
 		goto out;
@@ -543,6 +540,7 @@ static int l2tp_ip_recvmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct sock *sk, struct msghdr *m
 		sin->sin_addr.s_addr = ip_hdr(skb)->saddr;
 		sin->sin_port = 0;
 		memset(&sin->sin_zero, 0, sizeof(sin->sin_zero));
+		*addr_len = sizeof(*sin);
 	}
 	if (inet->cmsg_flags)
 		ip_cmsg_recv(msg, skb);

programming_language: C
filename: datagram.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -139,9 +139,6 @@ static int pn_recvmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct sock *sk,
 			MSG_CMSG_COMPAT))
 		goto out_nofree;
 
-	if (addr_len)
-		*addr_len = sizeof(sa);
-
 	skb = skb_recv_datagram(sk, flags, noblock, &rval);
 	if (skb == NULL)
 		goto out_nofree;
@@ -162,8 +159,10 @@ static int pn_recvmsg(struct kiocb *iocb, struct sock *sk,
 
 	rval = (flags & MSG_TRUNC) ? skb->len : copylen;
 
-	if (msg->msg_name != NULL)
-		memcpy(msg->msg_name, &sa, sizeof(struct sockaddr_pn));
+	if (msg->msg_name != NULL) {
+		memcpy(msg->msg_name, &sa, sizeof(sa));
+		*addr_len = sizeof(sa);
+	}
 
 out:
 	skb_free_datagram(sk, skb);

programming_language: C