CVE-2017-6353 (published 2017-03-01T20:59Z)

net/sctp/socket.c in the Linux kernel through 4.10.1 does not properly restrict association peel-off operations during certain wait states, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (invalid unlock and double free) via a multithreaded application.  NOTE: this vulnerability exists because of an incorrect fix for CVE-2017-5986.

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-415
cwe_name: Double Free
description: The product calls free() twice on the same memory address, potentially leading to modification of unexpected memory locations.
extended_description: When a program calls free() twice with the same argument, the program's memory management data structures become corrupted. This corruption can cause the program to crash or, in some circumstances, cause two later calls to malloc() to return the same pointer. If malloc() returns the same value twice and the program later gives the attacker control over the data that is written into this doubly-allocated memory, the program becomes vulnerable to a buffer overflow attack.
         

Fix information:
repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
commit_details: repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
author: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner
author_date: 2017-02-23 09:31:18-03:00
msg: sctp: deny peeloff operation on asocs with threads sleeping on it

commit 2dcab5984841 ("sctp: avoid BUG_ON on sctp_wait_for_sndbuf")
attempted to avoid a BUG_ON call when the association being used for a
sendmsg() is blocked waiting for more sndbuf and another thread did a
peeloff operation on such asoc, moving it to another socket.

As Ben Hutchings noticed, then in such case it would return without
locking back the socket and would cause two unlocks in a row.

Further analysis also revealed that it could allow a double free if the
application managed to peeloff the asoc that is created during the
sendmsg call, because then sctp_sendmsg() would try to free the asoc
that was created only for that call.

This patch takes another approach. It will deny the peeloff operation
if there is a thread sleeping on the asoc, so this situation doesn't
exist anymore. This avoids the issues described above and also honors
the syscalls that are already being handled (it can be multiple sendmsg
calls).

Joint work with Xin Long.

Fixes: 2dcab5984841 ("sctp: avoid BUG_ON on sctp_wait_for_sndbuf")
Cc: Alexander Popov <alex.popov@linux.com>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.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: socket.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -4862,6 +4862,12 @@ int sctp_do_peeloff(struct sock *sk, sctp_assoc_t id, struct socket **sockp)
 	if (!asoc)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
+	/* If there is a thread waiting on more sndbuf space for
+	 * sending on this asoc, it cannot be peeled.
+	 */
+	if (waitqueue_active(&asoc->wait))
+		return -EBUSY;
+
 	/* An association cannot be branched off from an already peeled-off
 	 * socket, nor is this supported for tcp style sockets.
 	 */
@@ -7599,8 +7605,6 @@ static int sctp_wait_for_sndbuf(struct sctp_association *asoc, long *timeo_p,
 		 */
 		release_sock(sk);
 		current_timeo = schedule_timeout(current_timeo);
-		if (sk != asoc->base.sk)
-			goto do_error;
 		lock_sock(sk);
 
 		*timeo_p = current_timeo;

programming_language: C