CVE-2017-7374 (published 2017-03-31T20:59Z)

Use-after-free vulnerability in fs/crypto/ in the Linux kernel before 4.10.7 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) or possibly gain privileges by revoking keyring keys being used for ext4, f2fs, or ubifs encryption, causing cryptographic transform objects to be freed prematurely.

Severity: HIGH
CVSS v2 base score: 7.2 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
CVSS v3 base score: 7.8, HIGH (CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/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.
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cwe_id: CWE-416
cwe_name: Use After Free
description: The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.
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Fix information:
repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
commit_details: repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
author: Eric Biggers
author_date: 2017-02-21 15:07:11-08:00
msg: fscrypt: remove broken support for detecting keyring key revocation

Filesystem encryption ostensibly supported revoking a keyring key that
had been used to "unlock" encrypted files, causing those files to become
"locked" again.  This was, however, buggy for several reasons, the most
severe of which was that when key revocation happened to be detected for
an inode, its fscrypt_info was immediately freed, even while other
threads could be using it for encryption or decryption concurrently.
This could be exploited to crash the kernel or worse.

This patch fixes the use-after-free by removing the code which detects
the keyring key having been revoked, invalidated, or expired.  Instead,
an encrypted inode that is "unlocked" now simply remains unlocked until
it is evicted from memory.  Note that this is no worse than the case for
block device-level encryption, e.g. dm-crypt, and it still remains
possible for a privileged user to evict unused pages, inodes, and
dentries by running 'sync; echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches', or by
simply unmounting the filesystem.  In fact, one of those actions was
already needed anyway for key revocation to work even somewhat sanely.
This change is not expected to break any applications.

In the future I'd like to implement a real API for fscrypt key
revocation that interacts sanely with ongoing filesystem operations ---
waiting for existing operations to complete and blocking new operations,
and invalidating and sanitizing key material and plaintext from the VFS
caches.  But this is a hard problem, and for now this bug must be fixed.

This bug affected almost all versions of ext4, f2fs, and ubifs
encryption, and it was potentially reachable in any kernel configured
with encryption support (CONFIG_EXT4_ENCRYPTION=y,
CONFIG_EXT4_FS_ENCRYPTION=y, CONFIG_F2FS_FS_ENCRYPTION=y, or
CONFIG_UBIFS_FS_ENCRYPTION=y).  Note that older kernels did not use the
shared fs/crypto/ code, but due to the potential security implications
of this bug, it may still be worthwhile to backport this fix to them.

Fixes: b7236e21d55f ("ext4 crypto: reorganize how we store keys in the inode")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v4.2+
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Acked-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@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: crypto.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -327,7 +327,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(fscrypt_decrypt_page);
 static int fscrypt_d_revalidate(struct dentry *dentry, unsigned int flags)
 {
 	struct dentry *dir;
-	struct fscrypt_info *ci;
 	int dir_has_key, cached_with_key;
 
 	if (flags & LOOKUP_RCU)
@@ -339,18 +338,11 @@ static int fscrypt_d_revalidate(struct dentry *dentry, unsigned int flags)
 		return 0;
 	}
 
-	ci = d_inode(dir)->i_crypt_info;
-	if (ci && ci->ci_keyring_key &&
-	    (ci->ci_keyring_key->flags & ((1 << KEY_FLAG_INVALIDATED) |
-					  (1 << KEY_FLAG_REVOKED) |
-					  (1 << KEY_FLAG_DEAD))))
-		ci = NULL;
-
 	/* this should eventually be an flag in d_flags */
 	spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock);
 	cached_with_key = dentry->d_flags & DCACHE_ENCRYPTED_WITH_KEY;
 	spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock);
-	dir_has_key = (ci != NULL);
+	dir_has_key = (d_inode(dir)->i_crypt_info != NULL);
 	dput(dir);
 
 	/*

programming_language: C
filename: fname.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ int fscrypt_setup_filename(struct inode *dir, const struct qstr *iname,
 		fname->disk_name.len = iname->len;
 		return 0;
 	}
-	ret = fscrypt_get_crypt_info(dir);
+	ret = fscrypt_get_encryption_info(dir);
 	if (ret && ret != -EOPNOTSUPP)
 		return ret;
 

programming_language: C
filename: fscrypt_private.h
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -67,7 +67,6 @@ struct fscrypt_info {
 	u8 ci_filename_mode;
 	u8 ci_flags;
 	struct crypto_skcipher *ci_ctfm;
-	struct key *ci_keyring_key;
 	u8 ci_master_key[FS_KEY_DESCRIPTOR_SIZE];
 };
 
@@ -101,7 +100,4 @@ extern int fscrypt_do_page_crypto(const struct inode *inode,
 extern struct page *fscrypt_alloc_bounce_page(struct fscrypt_ctx *ctx,
 					      gfp_t gfp_flags);
 
-/* keyinfo.c */
-extern int fscrypt_get_crypt_info(struct inode *);
-
 #endif /* _FSCRYPT_PRIVATE_H */

programming_language: C
filename: keyinfo.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -95,6 +95,7 @@ static int validate_user_key(struct fscrypt_info *crypt_info,
 	kfree(description);
 	if (IS_ERR(keyring_key))
 		return PTR_ERR(keyring_key);
+	down_read(&keyring_key->sem);
 
 	if (keyring_key->type != &key_type_logon) {
 		printk_once(KERN_WARNING
@@ -102,11 +103,9 @@ static int validate_user_key(struct fscrypt_info *crypt_info,
 		res = -ENOKEY;
 		goto out;
 	}
-	down_read(&keyring_key->sem);
 	ukp = user_key_payload(keyring_key);
 	if (ukp->datalen != sizeof(struct fscrypt_key)) {
 		res = -EINVAL;
-		up_read(&keyring_key->sem);
 		goto out;
 	}
 	master_key = (struct fscrypt_key *)ukp->data;
@@ -117,17 +116,11 @@ static int validate_user_key(struct fscrypt_info *crypt_info,
 				"%s: key size incorrect: %d\n",
 				__func__, master_key->size);
 		res = -ENOKEY;
-		up_read(&keyring_key->sem);
 		goto out;
 	}
 	res = derive_key_aes(ctx->nonce, master_key->raw, raw_key);
-	up_read(&keyring_key->sem);
-	if (res)
-		goto out;
-
-	crypt_info->ci_keyring_key = keyring_key;
-	return 0;
 out:
+	up_read(&keyring_key->sem);
 	key_put(keyring_key);
 	return res;
 }
@@ -169,12 +162,11 @@ static void put_crypt_info(struct fscrypt_info *ci)
 	if (!ci)
 		return;
 
-	key_put(ci->ci_keyring_key);
 	crypto_free_skcipher(ci->ci_ctfm);
 	kmem_cache_free(fscrypt_info_cachep, ci);
 }
 
-int fscrypt_get_crypt_info(struct inode *inode)
+int fscrypt_get_encryption_info(struct inode *inode)
 {
 	struct fscrypt_info *crypt_info;
 	struct fscrypt_context ctx;
@@ -184,21 +176,15 @@ int fscrypt_get_crypt_info(struct inode *inode)
 	u8 *raw_key = NULL;
 	int res;
 
+	if (inode->i_crypt_info)
+		return 0;
+
 	res = fscrypt_initialize(inode->i_sb->s_cop->flags);
 	if (res)
 		return res;
 
 	if (!inode->i_sb->s_cop->get_context)
 		return -EOPNOTSUPP;
-retry:
-	crypt_info = ACCESS_ONCE(inode->i_crypt_info);
-	if (crypt_info) {
-		if (!crypt_info->ci_keyring_key ||
-				key_validate(crypt_info->ci_keyring_key) == 0)
-			return 0;
-		fscrypt_put_encryption_info(inode, crypt_info);
-		goto retry;
-	}
 
 	res = inode->i_sb->s_cop->get_context(inode, &ctx, sizeof(ctx));
 	if (res < 0) {
@@ -229,7 +215,6 @@ int fscrypt_get_crypt_info(struct inode *inode)
 	crypt_info->ci_data_mode = ctx.contents_encryption_mode;
 	crypt_info->ci_filename_mode = ctx.filenames_encryption_mode;
 	crypt_info->ci_ctfm = NULL;
-	crypt_info->ci_keyring_key = NULL;
 	memcpy(crypt_info->ci_master_key, ctx.master_key_descriptor,
 				sizeof(crypt_info->ci_master_key));
 
@@ -273,14 +258,8 @@ int fscrypt_get_crypt_info(struct inode *inode)
 	if (res)
 		goto out;
 
-	kzfree(raw_key);
-	raw_key = NULL;
-	if (cmpxchg(&inode->i_crypt_info, NULL, crypt_info) != NULL) {
-		put_crypt_info(crypt_info);
-		goto retry;
-	}
-	return 0;
-
+	if (cmpxchg(&inode->i_crypt_info, NULL, crypt_info) == NULL)
+		crypt_info = NULL;
 out:
 	if (res == -ENOKEY)
 		res = 0;
@@ -288,6 +267,7 @@ int fscrypt_get_crypt_info(struct inode *inode)
 	kzfree(raw_key);
 	return res;
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(fscrypt_get_encryption_info);
 
 void fscrypt_put_encryption_info(struct inode *inode, struct fscrypt_info *ci)
 {
@@ -305,17 +285,3 @@ void fscrypt_put_encryption_info(struct inode *inode, struct fscrypt_info *ci)
 	put_crypt_info(ci);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(fscrypt_put_encryption_info);
-
-int fscrypt_get_encryption_info(struct inode *inode)
-{
-	struct fscrypt_info *ci = inode->i_crypt_info;
-
-	if (!ci ||
-		(ci->ci_keyring_key &&
-		 (ci->ci_keyring_key->flags & ((1 << KEY_FLAG_INVALIDATED) |
-					       (1 << KEY_FLAG_REVOKED) |
-					       (1 << KEY_FLAG_DEAD)))))
-		return fscrypt_get_crypt_info(inode);
-	return 0;
-}
-EXPORT_SYMBOL(fscrypt_get_encryption_info);

programming_language: C