CVE-2018-1065 (published 2018-03-02T08:29Z)

The netfilter subsystem in the Linux kernel through 4.15.7 mishandles the case of a rule blob that contains a jump but lacks a user-defined chain, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) by leveraging the CAP_NET_RAW or CAP_NET_ADMIN capability, related to arpt_do_table in net/ipv4/netfilter/arp_tables.c, ipt_do_table in net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c, and ip6t_do_table in net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c.

Severity: MEDIUM
CVSS v2 base score: 4.7 (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
CVSS v3 base score: 4.7, MEDIUM (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/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: Florian Westphal
author_date: 2018-02-07 13:46:25+01:00
msg: netfilter: add back stackpointer size checks

The rationale for removing the check is only correct for rulesets
generated by ip(6)tables.

In iptables, a jump can only occur to a user-defined chain, i.e.
because we size the stack based on number of user-defined chains we
cannot exceed stack size.

However, the underlying binary format has no such restriction,
and the validation step only ensures that the jump target is a
valid rule start point.

IOW, its possible to build a rule blob that has no user-defined
chains but does contain a jump.

If this happens, no jump stack gets allocated and crash occurs
because no jumpstack was allocated.

Fixes: 7814b6ec6d0d6 ("netfilter: xtables: don't save/restore jumpstack offset")
Reported-by: syzbot+e783f671527912cd9403@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
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: arp_tables.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -252,6 +252,10 @@ unsigned int arpt_do_table(struct sk_buff *skb,
 			}
 			if (table_base + v
 			    != arpt_next_entry(e)) {
+				if (unlikely(stackidx >= private->stacksize)) {
+					verdict = NF_DROP;
+					break;
+				}
 				jumpstack[stackidx++] = e;
 			}
 

programming_language: C
filename: ip_tables.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -330,8 +330,13 @@ ipt_do_table(struct sk_buff *skb,
 				continue;
 			}
 			if (table_base + v != ipt_next_entry(e) &&
-			    !(e->ip.flags & IPT_F_GOTO))
+			    !(e->ip.flags & IPT_F_GOTO)) {
+				if (unlikely(stackidx >= private->stacksize)) {
+					verdict = NF_DROP;
+					break;
+				}
 				jumpstack[stackidx++] = e;
+			}
 
 			e = get_entry(table_base, v);
 			continue;

programming_language: C
filename: ip6_tables.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -352,6 +352,10 @@ ip6t_do_table(struct sk_buff *skb,
 			}
 			if (table_base + v != ip6t_next_entry(e) &&
 			    !(e->ipv6.flags & IP6T_F_GOTO)) {
+				if (unlikely(stackidx >= private->stacksize)) {
+					verdict = NF_DROP;
+					break;
+				}
 				jumpstack[stackidx++] = e;
 			}
 

programming_language: C