CVE-2016-8645 (published 2016-11-28T03:59Z)

The TCP stack in the Linux kernel before 4.8.10 mishandles skb truncation, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a crafted application that makes sendto system calls, related to net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c and net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c.

Severity: MEDIUM
CVSS v2 base score: 4.9 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
CVSS v3 base score: 5.5, MEDIUM (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Weakness information:
cwe_id: CWE-284
cwe_name: Improper Access Control
description: The product does not restrict or incorrectly restricts access to a resource from an unauthorized actor.
extended_description: 
            Access control involves the use of several protection mechanisms such as:
            
               Authentication (proving the identity of an actor)
               Authorization (ensuring that a given actor can access a resource), and
               Accountability (tracking of activities that were performed)
            
            When any mechanism is not applied or otherwise fails, attackers can compromise the security of the product by gaining privileges, reading sensitive information, executing commands, evading detection, etc.
            There are two distinct behaviors that can introduce access control weaknesses:
               
                  Specification: incorrect privileges, permissions, ownership, etc. are explicitly specified for either the user or the resource (for example, setting a password file to be world-writable, or giving administrator capabilities to a guest user). This action could be performed by the program or the administrator.
                  Enforcement: the mechanism contains errors that prevent it from properly enforcing the specified access control requirements (e.g., allowing the user to specify their own privileges, or allowing a syntactically-incorrect ACL to produce insecure settings). This problem occurs within the program itself, in that it does not actually enforce the intended security policy that the administrator specifies.
               
         
		 

Fix information:
repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
commit_details: repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
author: Eric Dumazet
author_date: 2016-11-10 13:12:35-08:00
msg: tcp: take care of truncations done by sk_filter()

With syzkaller help, Marco Grassi found a bug in TCP stack,
crashing in tcp_collapse()

Root cause is that sk_filter() can truncate the incoming skb,
but TCP stack was not really expecting this to happen.
It probably was expecting a simple DROP or ACCEPT behavior.

We first need to make sure no part of TCP header could be removed.
Then we need to adjust TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->end_seq

Many thanks to syzkaller team and Marco for giving us a reproducer.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Reported-by: Marco Grassi <marco.gra@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Vladis Dronov <vdronov@redhat.com>
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: tcp.h
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -1220,6 +1220,7 @@ static inline void tcp_prequeue_init(struct tcp_sock *tp)
 
 bool tcp_prequeue(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb);
 bool tcp_add_backlog(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb);
+int tcp_filter(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb);
 
 #undef STATE_TRACE
 

programming_language: C
filename: tcp_ipv4.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -1564,6 +1564,21 @@ bool tcp_add_backlog(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(tcp_add_backlog);
 
+int tcp_filter(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
+{
+	struct tcphdr *th = (struct tcphdr *)skb->data;
+	unsigned int eaten = skb->len;
+	int err;
+
+	err = sk_filter_trim_cap(sk, skb, th->doff * 4);
+	if (!err) {
+		eaten -= skb->len;
+		TCP_SKB_CB(skb)->end_seq -= eaten;
+	}
+	return err;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(tcp_filter);
+
 /*
  *	From tcp_input.c
  */
@@ -1676,8 +1691,10 @@ int tcp_v4_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb)
 
 	nf_reset(skb);
 
-	if (sk_filter(sk, skb))
+	if (tcp_filter(sk, skb))
 		goto discard_and_relse;
+	th = (const struct tcphdr *)skb->data;
+	iph = ip_hdr(skb);
 
 	skb->dev = NULL;
 

programming_language: C
filename: tcp_ipv6.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -1229,7 +1229,7 @@ static int tcp_v6_do_rcv(struct sock *sk, struct sk_buff *skb)
 	if (skb->protocol == htons(ETH_P_IP))
 		return tcp_v4_do_rcv(sk, skb);
 
-	if (sk_filter(sk, skb))
+	if (tcp_filter(sk, skb))
 		goto discard;
 
 	/*
@@ -1457,8 +1457,10 @@ static int tcp_v6_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb)
 	if (tcp_v6_inbound_md5_hash(sk, skb))
 		goto discard_and_relse;
 
-	if (sk_filter(sk, skb))
+	if (tcp_filter(sk, skb))
 		goto discard_and_relse;
+	th = (const struct tcphdr *)skb->data;
+	hdr = ipv6_hdr(skb);
 
 	skb->dev = NULL;
 

programming_language: C