CVE-2017-15537 (published 2017-10-17T18:29Z)

The x86/fpu (Floating Point Unit) subsystem in the Linux kernel before 4.13.5, when a processor supports the xsave feature but not the xsaves feature, does not correctly handle attempts to set reserved bits in the xstate header via the ptrace() or rt_sigreturn() system call, allowing local users to read the FPU registers of other processes on the system, related to arch/x86/kernel/fpu/regset.c and arch/x86/kernel/fpu/signal.c.

Severity: LOW
CVSS v2 base score: 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
CVSS v3 base score: 5.5, MEDIUM (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

Weakness information:
cwe_id: CWE-200
cwe_name: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
description: The product exposes sensitive information to an actor that is not explicitly authorized to have access to that information.
extended_description: 
	   There are many different kinds of mistakes that introduce information exposures. The severity of the error can range widely, depending on the context in which the product operates, the type of sensitive information that is revealed, and the benefits it may provide to an attacker.  Some kinds of sensitive information include:
       
         private, personal information, such as personal messages, financial data, health records, geographic location, or contact details
         system status and environment, such as the operating system and installed packages
		 business secrets and intellectual property
		 network status and configuration
		 the product's own code or internal state
         metadata, e.g. logging of connections or message headers
		 indirect information, such as a discrepancy between two internal operations that can be observed by an outsider
       
	    Information might be sensitive to different parties, each of which may have their own expectations for whether the information should be protected.  These parties include:
               
                  the product's own users
                  people or organizations whose information is created or used by the product, even if they are not direct product users
		  the product's administrators, including the admins of the system(s) and/or networks on which the product operates
                  the developer
               
	    Information exposures can occur in different ways:
               
                  the code explicitly inserts sensitive information into resources or messages that are intentionally made accessible to unauthorized actors, but should not contain the information - i.e., the information should have been "scrubbed" or "sanitized"
                  a different weakness or mistake indirectly inserts the sensitive information into resources, such as a web script error revealing the full system path of the program.
                  the code manages resources that intentionally contain sensitive information, but the resources are unintentionally made accessible to unauthorized actors. In this case, the information exposure is resultant - i.e., a different weakness enabled the access to the information in the first place.
               
	    It is common practice to describe any loss of confidentiality as an "information exposure," but this can lead to overuse of CWE-200 in CWE mapping. From the CWE perspective, loss of confidentiality is a technical impact that can arise from dozens of different weaknesses, such as insecure file permissions or out-of-bounds read.  CWE-200 and its lower-level descendants are intended to cover the mistakes that occur in behaviors that explicitly manage, store, transfer, or cleanse sensitive information.
         
         

Fix information:
repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
commit_details: repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
author: Eric Biggers
author_date: 2017-09-23 15:00:07+02:00
msg: x86/fpu: Don't let userspace set bogus xcomp_bv

On x86, userspace can use the ptrace() or rt_sigreturn() system calls to
set a task's extended state (xstate) or "FPU" registers.  ptrace() can
set them for another task using the PTRACE_SETREGSET request with
NT_X86_XSTATE, while rt_sigreturn() can set them for the current task.
In either case, registers can be set to any value, but the kernel
assumes that the XSAVE area itself remains valid in the sense that the
CPU can restore it.

However, in the case where the kernel is using the uncompacted xstate
format (which it does whenever the XSAVES instruction is unavailable),
it was possible for userspace to set the xcomp_bv field in the
xstate_header to an arbitrary value.  However, all bits in that field
are reserved in the uncompacted case, so when switching to a task with
nonzero xcomp_bv, the XRSTOR instruction failed with a #GP fault.  This
caused the WARN_ON_FPU(err) in copy_kernel_to_xregs() to be hit.  In
addition, since the error is otherwise ignored, the FPU registers from
the task previously executing on the CPU were leaked.

Fix the bug by checking that the user-supplied value of xcomp_bv is 0 in
the uncompacted case, and returning an error otherwise.

The reason for validating xcomp_bv rather than simply overwriting it
with 0 is that we want userspace to see an error if it (incorrectly)
provides an XSAVE area in compacted format rather than in uncompacted
format.

Note that as before, in case of error we clear the task's FPU state.
This is perhaps non-ideal, especially for PTRACE_SETREGSET; it might be
better to return an error before changing anything.  But it seems the
"clear on error" behavior is fine for now, and it's a little tricky to
do otherwise because it would mean we couldn't simply copy the full
userspace state into kernel memory in one __copy_from_user().

This bug was found by syzkaller, which hit the above-mentioned
WARN_ON_FPU():

    WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 0 at ./arch/x86/include/asm/fpu/internal.h:373 __switch_to+0x5b5/0x5d0
    CPU: 1 PID: 0 Comm: swapper/1 Not tainted 4.13.0 #453
    Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS Bochs 01/01/2011
    task: ffff9ba2bc8e42c0 task.stack: ffffa78cc036c000
    RIP: 0010:__switch_to+0x5b5/0x5d0
    RSP: 0000:ffffa78cc08bbb88 EFLAGS: 00010082
    RAX: 00000000fffffffe RBX: ffff9ba2b8bf2180 RCX: 00000000c0000100
    RDX: 00000000ffffffff RSI: 000000005cb10700 RDI: ffff9ba2b8bf36c0
    RBP: ffffa78cc08bbbd0 R08: 00000000929fdf46 R09: 0000000000000001
    R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff9ba2bc8e42c0
    R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff9ba2b8bf3680 R15: ffff9ba2bf5d7b40
    FS:  00007f7e5cb10700(0000) GS:ffff9ba2bf400000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
    CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
    CR2: 00000000004005cc CR3: 0000000079fd5000 CR4: 00000000001406e0
    Call Trace:
    Code: 84 00 00 00 00 00 e9 11 fd ff ff 0f ff 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 e9 e7 fa ff ff 0f ff 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 e9 c2 fa ff ff <0f> ff 66 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 e9 d4 fc ff ff 66 66 2e 0f 1f

Here is a C reproducer.  The expected behavior is that the program spin
forever with no output.  However, on a buggy kernel running on a
processor with the "xsave" feature but without the "xsaves" feature
(e.g. Sandy Bridge through Broadwell for Intel), within a second or two
the program reports that the xmm registers were corrupted, i.e. were not
restored correctly.  With CONFIG_X86_DEBUG_FPU=y it also hits the above
kernel warning.

    #define _GNU_SOURCE
    #include <stdbool.h>
    #include <inttypes.h>
    #include <linux/elf.h>
    #include <stdio.h>
    #include <sys/ptrace.h>
    #include <sys/uio.h>
    #include <sys/wait.h>
    #include <unistd.h>

    int main(void)
    {
        int pid = fork();
        uint64_t xstate[512];
        struct iovec iov = { .iov_base = xstate, .iov_len = sizeof(xstate) };

        if (pid == 0) {
            bool tracee = true;
            for (int i = 0; i < sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN) && tracee; i++)
                tracee = (fork() != 0);
            uint32_t xmm0[4] = { [0 ... 3] = tracee ? 0x00000000 : 0xDEADBEEF };
            asm volatile("   movdqu %0, %%xmm0\n"
                         "   mov %0, %%rbx\n"
                         "1: movdqu %%xmm0, %0\n"
                         "   mov %0, %%rax\n"
                         "   cmp %%rax, %%rbx\n"
                         "   je 1b\n"
                         : "+m" (xmm0) : : "rax", "rbx", "xmm0");
            printf("BUG: xmm registers corrupted!  tracee=%d, xmm0=%08X%08X%08X%08X\n",
                   tracee, xmm0[0], xmm0[1], xmm0[2], xmm0[3]);
        } else {
            usleep(100000);
            ptrace(PTRACE_ATTACH, pid, 0, 0);
            wait(NULL);
            ptrace(PTRACE_GETREGSET, pid, NT_X86_XSTATE, &iov);
            xstate[65] = -1;
            ptrace(PTRACE_SETREGSET, pid, NT_X86_XSTATE, &iov);
            ptrace(PTRACE_CONT, pid, 0, 0);
            wait(NULL);
        }
        return 1;
    }

Note: the program only tests for the bug using the ptrace() system call.
The bug can also be reproduced using the rt_sigreturn() system call, but
only when called from a 32-bit program, since for 64-bit programs the
kernel restores the FPU state from the signal frame by doing XRSTOR
directly from userspace memory (with proper error checking).

Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> [v3.17+]
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net>
Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Eric Biggers <ebiggers3@gmail.com>
Cc: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
Cc: Kevin Hao <haokexin@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@google.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Wanpeng Li <wanpeng.li@hotmail.com>
Cc: Yu-cheng Yu <yu-cheng.yu@intel.com>
Cc: kernel-hardening@lists.openwall.com
Fixes: 0b29643a5843 ("x86/xsaves: Change compacted format xsave area header")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170922174156.16780-2-ebiggers3@gmail.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170923130016.21448-25-mingo@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.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: regset.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -141,6 +141,10 @@ int xstateregs_set(struct task_struct *target, const struct user_regset *regset,
 			ret = copy_user_to_xstate(xsave, ubuf);
 	} else {
 		ret = user_regset_copyin(&pos, &count, &kbuf, &ubuf, xsave, 0, -1);
+
+		/* xcomp_bv must be 0 when using uncompacted format */
+		if (!ret && xsave->header.xcomp_bv)
+			ret = -EINVAL;
 	}
 
 	/*

programming_language: C
filename: signal.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -324,11 +324,16 @@ static int __fpu__restore_sig(void __user *buf, void __user *buf_fx, int size)
 		 */
 		fpu__drop(fpu);
 
-		if (using_compacted_format())
+		if (using_compacted_format()) {
 			err = copy_user_to_xstate(&fpu->state.xsave, buf_fx);
-		else
+		} else {
 			err = __copy_from_user(&fpu->state.xsave, buf_fx, state_size);
 
+			/* xcomp_bv must be 0 when using uncompacted format */
+			if (!err && state_size > offsetof(struct xregs_state, header) && fpu->state.xsave.header.xcomp_bv)
+				err = -EINVAL;
+		}
+
 		if (err || __copy_from_user(&env, buf, sizeof(env))) {
 			fpstate_init(&fpu->state);
 			trace_x86_fpu_init_state(fpu);

programming_language: C