CVE-2017-1000380 (published 2017-06-17T18:29Z)

sound/core/timer.c in the Linux kernel before 4.11.5 is vulnerable to a data race in the ALSA /dev/snd/timer driver resulting in local users being able to read information belonging to other users, i.e., uninitialized memory contents may be disclosed when a read and an ioctl happen at the same time.

Severity: LOW
CVSS v2 base score: 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
CVSS v3 base score: 5.5, MEDIUM (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/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: Takashi Iwai
author_date: 2017-06-02 15:03:38+02:00
msg: ALSA: timer: Fix race between read and ioctl

The read from ALSA timer device, the function snd_timer_user_tread(),
may access to an uninitialized struct snd_timer_user fields when the
read is concurrently performed while the ioctl like
snd_timer_user_tselect() is invoked.  We have already fixed the races
among ioctls via a mutex, but we seem to have forgotten the race
between read vs ioctl.

This patch simply applies (more exactly extends the already applied
range of) tu->ioctl_lock in snd_timer_user_tread() for closing the
race window.

Reported-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Tested-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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: timer.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -1959,6 +1959,7 @@ static ssize_t snd_timer_user_read(struct file *file, char __user *buffer,
 
 	tu = file->private_data;
 	unit = tu->tread ? sizeof(struct snd_timer_tread) : sizeof(struct snd_timer_read);
+	mutex_lock(&tu->ioctl_lock);
 	spin_lock_irq(&tu->qlock);
 	while ((long)count - result >= unit) {
 		while (!tu->qused) {
@@ -1974,7 +1975,9 @@ static ssize_t snd_timer_user_read(struct file *file, char __user *buffer,
 			add_wait_queue(&tu->qchange_sleep, &wait);
 
 			spin_unlock_irq(&tu->qlock);
+			mutex_unlock(&tu->ioctl_lock);
 			schedule();
+			mutex_lock(&tu->ioctl_lock);
 			spin_lock_irq(&tu->qlock);
 
 			remove_wait_queue(&tu->qchange_sleep, &wait);
@@ -1994,7 +1997,6 @@ static ssize_t snd_timer_user_read(struct file *file, char __user *buffer,
 		tu->qused--;
 		spin_unlock_irq(&tu->qlock);
 
-		mutex_lock(&tu->ioctl_lock);
 		if (tu->tread) {
 			if (copy_to_user(buffer, &tu->tqueue[qhead],
 					 sizeof(struct snd_timer_tread)))
@@ -2004,7 +2006,6 @@ static ssize_t snd_timer_user_read(struct file *file, char __user *buffer,
 					 sizeof(struct snd_timer_read)))
 				err = -EFAULT;
 		}
-		mutex_unlock(&tu->ioctl_lock);
 
 		spin_lock_irq(&tu->qlock);
 		if (err < 0)
@@ -2014,6 +2015,7 @@ static ssize_t snd_timer_user_read(struct file *file, char __user *buffer,
 	}
  _error:
 	spin_unlock_irq(&tu->qlock);
+	mutex_unlock(&tu->ioctl_lock);
 	return result > 0 ? result : err;
 }
 

programming_language: C
repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
commit_details: repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
author: Takashi Iwai
author_date: 2017-06-02 17:26:56+02:00
msg: ALSA: timer: Fix missing queue indices reset at SNDRV_TIMER_IOCTL_SELECT

snd_timer_user_tselect() reallocates the queue buffer dynamically, but
it forgot to reset its indices.  Since the read may happen
concurrently with ioctl and snd_timer_user_tselect() allocates the
buffer via kmalloc(), this may lead to the leak of uninitialized
kernel-space data, as spotted via KMSAN:

  BUG: KMSAN: use of unitialized memory in snd_timer_user_read+0x6c4/0xa10
  CPU: 0 PID: 1037 Comm: probe Not tainted 4.11.0-rc5+ #2739
  Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
  Call Trace:
   __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:16
   dump_stack+0x143/0x1b0 lib/dump_stack.c:52
   kmsan_report+0x12a/0x180 mm/kmsan/kmsan.c:1007
   kmsan_check_memory+0xc2/0x140 mm/kmsan/kmsan.c:1086
   copy_to_user ./arch/x86/include/asm/uaccess.h:725
   snd_timer_user_read+0x6c4/0xa10 sound/core/timer.c:2004
   do_loop_readv_writev fs/read_write.c:716
   __do_readv_writev+0x94c/0x1380 fs/read_write.c:864
   do_readv_writev fs/read_write.c:894
   vfs_readv fs/read_write.c:908
   do_readv+0x52a/0x5d0 fs/read_write.c:934
   SYSC_readv+0xb6/0xd0 fs/read_write.c:1021
   SyS_readv+0x87/0xb0 fs/read_write.c:1018

This patch adds the missing reset of queue indices.  Together with the
previous fix for the ioctl/read race, we cover the whole problem.

Reported-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Tested-by: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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: timer.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -1618,6 +1618,7 @@ static int snd_timer_user_tselect(struct file *file,
 	if (err < 0)
 		goto __err;
 
+	tu->qhead = tu->qtail = tu->qused = 0;
 	kfree(tu->queue);
 	tu->queue = NULL;
 	kfree(tu->tqueue);

programming_language: C