CVE-2016-4558 (published 2016-05-23T10:59Z)

The BPF subsystem in the Linux kernel before 4.5.5 mishandles reference counts, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (use-after-free) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted application on (1) a system with more than 32 Gb of memory, related to the program reference count or (2) a 1 Tb system, related to the map reference count.

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: Alexei Starovoitov
author_date: 2016-04-27 18:56:20-07:00
msg: bpf: fix refcnt overflow

On a system with >32Gbyte of phyiscal memory and infinite RLIMIT_MEMLOCK,
the malicious application may overflow 32-bit bpf program refcnt.
It's also possible to overflow map refcnt on 1Tb system.
Impose 32k hard limit which means that the same bpf program or
map cannot be shared by more than 32k processes.

Fixes: 1be7f75d1668 ("bpf: enable non-root eBPF programs")
Reported-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
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: bpf.h
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -171,12 +171,13 @@ void bpf_register_prog_type(struct bpf_prog_type_list *tl);
 void bpf_register_map_type(struct bpf_map_type_list *tl);
 
 struct bpf_prog *bpf_prog_get(u32 ufd);
+struct bpf_prog *bpf_prog_inc(struct bpf_prog *prog);
 void bpf_prog_put(struct bpf_prog *prog);
 void bpf_prog_put_rcu(struct bpf_prog *prog);
 
 struct bpf_map *bpf_map_get_with_uref(u32 ufd);
 struct bpf_map *__bpf_map_get(struct fd f);
-void bpf_map_inc(struct bpf_map *map, bool uref);
+struct bpf_map *bpf_map_inc(struct bpf_map *map, bool uref);
 void bpf_map_put_with_uref(struct bpf_map *map);
 void bpf_map_put(struct bpf_map *map);
 int bpf_map_precharge_memlock(u32 pages);

programming_language: C
filename: inode.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -31,10 +31,10 @@ static void *bpf_any_get(void *raw, enum bpf_type type)
 {
 	switch (type) {
 	case BPF_TYPE_PROG:
-		atomic_inc(&((struct bpf_prog *)raw)->aux->refcnt);
+		raw = bpf_prog_inc(raw);
 		break;
 	case BPF_TYPE_MAP:
-		bpf_map_inc(raw, true);
+		raw = bpf_map_inc(raw, true);
 		break;
 	default:
 		WARN_ON_ONCE(1);
@@ -297,7 +297,8 @@ static void *bpf_obj_do_get(const struct filename *pathname,
 		goto out;
 
 	raw = bpf_any_get(inode->i_private, *type);
-	touch_atime(&path);
+	if (!IS_ERR(raw))
+		touch_atime(&path);
 
 	path_put(&path);
 	return raw;

programming_language: C
filename: syscall.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -218,11 +218,18 @@ struct bpf_map *__bpf_map_get(struct fd f)
 	return f.file->private_data;
 }
 
-void bpf_map_inc(struct bpf_map *map, bool uref)
+/* prog's and map's refcnt limit */
+#define BPF_MAX_REFCNT 32768
+
+struct bpf_map *bpf_map_inc(struct bpf_map *map, bool uref)
 {
-	atomic_inc(&map->refcnt);
+	if (atomic_inc_return(&map->refcnt) > BPF_MAX_REFCNT) {
+		atomic_dec(&map->refcnt);
+		return ERR_PTR(-EBUSY);
+	}
 	if (uref)
 		atomic_inc(&map->usercnt);
+	return map;
 }
 
 struct bpf_map *bpf_map_get_with_uref(u32 ufd)
@@ -234,7 +241,7 @@ struct bpf_map *bpf_map_get_with_uref(u32 ufd)
 	if (IS_ERR(map))
 		return map;
 
-	bpf_map_inc(map, true);
+	map = bpf_map_inc(map, true);
 	fdput(f);
 
 	return map;
@@ -658,6 +665,15 @@ static struct bpf_prog *__bpf_prog_get(struct fd f)
 	return f.file->private_data;
 }
 
+struct bpf_prog *bpf_prog_inc(struct bpf_prog *prog)
+{
+	if (atomic_inc_return(&prog->aux->refcnt) > BPF_MAX_REFCNT) {
+		atomic_dec(&prog->aux->refcnt);
+		return ERR_PTR(-EBUSY);
+	}
+	return prog;
+}
+
 /* called by sockets/tracing/seccomp before attaching program to an event
  * pairs with bpf_prog_put()
  */
@@ -670,7 +686,7 @@ struct bpf_prog *bpf_prog_get(u32 ufd)
 	if (IS_ERR(prog))
 		return prog;
 
-	atomic_inc(&prog->aux->refcnt);
+	prog = bpf_prog_inc(prog);
 	fdput(f);
 
 	return prog;

programming_language: C
filename: verifier.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -2049,15 +2049,18 @@ static int replace_map_fd_with_map_ptr(struct verifier_env *env)
 				return -E2BIG;
 			}
 
-			/* remember this map */
-			env->used_maps[env->used_map_cnt++] = map;
-
 			/* hold the map. If the program is rejected by verifier,
 			 * the map will be released by release_maps() or it
 			 * will be used by the valid program until it's unloaded
 			 * and all maps are released in free_bpf_prog_info()
 			 */
-			bpf_map_inc(map, false);
+			map = bpf_map_inc(map, false);
+			if (IS_ERR(map)) {
+				fdput(f);
+				return PTR_ERR(map);
+			}
+			env->used_maps[env->used_map_cnt++] = map;
+
 			fdput(f);
 next_insn:
 			insn++;

programming_language: C