CVE-2015-8970 (published 2016-11-28T03:59Z)

crypto/algif_skcipher.c in the Linux kernel before 4.4.2 does not verify that a setkey operation has been performed on an AF_ALG socket before an accept system call is processed, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) via a crafted application that does not supply a key, related to the lrw_crypt function in crypto/lrw.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-476
cwe_name: NULL Pointer Dereference
description: The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.
extended_description: 
            
            
            
         
         

Fix information:
repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
commit_details: repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
author: Herbert Xu
author_date: 2015-12-25 15:40:05+08:00
msg: crypto: algif_skcipher - Require setkey before accept(2)

Some cipher implementations will crash if you try to use them
without calling setkey first.  This patch adds a check so that
the accept(2) call will fail with -ENOKEY if setkey hasn't been
done on the socket yet.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
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: algif_skcipher.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -31,6 +31,11 @@ struct skcipher_sg_list {
 	struct scatterlist sg[0];
 };
 
+struct skcipher_tfm {
+	struct crypto_skcipher *skcipher;
+	bool has_key;
+};
+
 struct skcipher_ctx {
 	struct list_head tsgl;
 	struct af_alg_sgl rsgl;
@@ -750,17 +755,41 @@ static struct proto_ops algif_skcipher_ops = {
 
 static void *skcipher_bind(const char *name, u32 type, u32 mask)
 {
-	return crypto_alloc_skcipher(name, type, mask);
+	struct skcipher_tfm *tfm;
+	struct crypto_skcipher *skcipher;
+
+	tfm = kzalloc(sizeof(*tfm), GFP_KERNEL);
+	if (!tfm)
+		return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
+
+	skcipher = crypto_alloc_skcipher(name, type, mask);
+	if (IS_ERR(skcipher)) {
+		kfree(tfm);
+		return ERR_CAST(skcipher);
+	}
+
+	tfm->skcipher = skcipher;
+
+	return tfm;
 }
 
 static void skcipher_release(void *private)
 {
-	crypto_free_skcipher(private);
+	struct skcipher_tfm *tfm = private;
+
+	crypto_free_skcipher(tfm->skcipher);
+	kfree(tfm);
 }
 
 static int skcipher_setkey(void *private, const u8 *key, unsigned int keylen)
 {
-	return crypto_skcipher_setkey(private, key, keylen);
+	struct skcipher_tfm *tfm = private;
+	int err;
+
+	err = crypto_skcipher_setkey(tfm->skcipher, key, keylen);
+	tfm->has_key = !err;
+
+	return err;
 }
 
 static void skcipher_wait(struct sock *sk)
@@ -792,20 +821,25 @@ static int skcipher_accept_parent(void *private, struct sock *sk)
 {
 	struct skcipher_ctx *ctx;
 	struct alg_sock *ask = alg_sk(sk);
-	unsigned int len = sizeof(*ctx) + crypto_skcipher_reqsize(private);
+	struct skcipher_tfm *tfm = private;
+	struct crypto_skcipher *skcipher = tfm->skcipher;
+	unsigned int len = sizeof(*ctx) + crypto_skcipher_reqsize(skcipher);
+
+	if (!tfm->has_key)
+		return -ENOKEY;
 
 	ctx = sock_kmalloc(sk, len, GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!ctx)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
-	ctx->iv = sock_kmalloc(sk, crypto_skcipher_ivsize(private),
+	ctx->iv = sock_kmalloc(sk, crypto_skcipher_ivsize(skcipher),
 			       GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!ctx->iv) {
 		sock_kfree_s(sk, ctx, len);
 		return -ENOMEM;
 	}
 
-	memset(ctx->iv, 0, crypto_skcipher_ivsize(private));
+	memset(ctx->iv, 0, crypto_skcipher_ivsize(skcipher));
 
 	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ctx->tsgl);
 	ctx->len = len;
@@ -818,7 +852,7 @@ static int skcipher_accept_parent(void *private, struct sock *sk)
 
 	ask->private = ctx;
 
-	skcipher_request_set_tfm(&ctx->req, private);
+	skcipher_request_set_tfm(&ctx->req, skcipher);
 	skcipher_request_set_callback(&ctx->req, CRYPTO_TFM_REQ_MAY_BACKLOG,
 				      af_alg_complete, &ctx->completion);
 

programming_language: C