CVE-2013-0313 (published 2013-02-22T00:55Z)

The evm_update_evmxattr function in security/integrity/evm/evm_crypto.c in the Linux kernel before 3.7.5, when the Extended Verification Module (EVM) is enabled, allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via an attempted removexattr operation on an inode of a sockfs filesystem.

Severity: MEDIUM
CVSS v2 base score: 6.2 (AV:L/AC:H/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

Weakness information:
cwe_id: NVD-CWE-noinfo
cwe_name: Insufficient Information
description: There is insufficient information about the issue to classify it; details are unkown or unspecified.
extended_description: Insufficient Information

Fix information:
repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
commit_details: repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
author: Dmitry Kasatkin
author_date: 2013-01-18 23:56:39+02:00
msg: evm: checking if removexattr is not a NULL

The following lines of code produce a kernel oops.

fd = socket(PF_FILE, SOCK_STREAM|SOCK_CLOEXEC|SOCK_NONBLOCK, 0);
fchmod(fd, 0666);

[  139.922364] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at   (null)
[  139.924982] IP: [<  (null)>]   (null)
[  139.924982] *pde = 00000000
[  139.924982] Oops: 0000 [#5] SMP
[  139.924982] Modules linked in: fuse dm_crypt dm_mod i2c_piix4 serio_raw evdev binfmt_misc button
[  139.924982] Pid: 3070, comm: acpid Tainted: G      D      3.8.0-rc2-kds+ #465 Bochs Bochs
[  139.924982] EIP: 0060:[<00000000>] EFLAGS: 00010246 CPU: 0
[  139.924982] EIP is at 0x0
[  139.924982] EAX: cf5ef000 EBX: cf5ef000 ECX: c143d600 EDX: c15225f2
[  139.924982] ESI: cf4d2a1c EDI: cf4d2a1c EBP: cc02df10 ESP: cc02dee4
[  139.924982]  DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0033 SS: 0068
[  139.924982] CR0: 80050033 CR2: 00000000 CR3: 0c059000 CR4: 000006d0
[  139.924982] DR0: 00000000 DR1: 00000000 DR2: 00000000 DR3: 00000000
[  139.924982] DR6: ffff0ff0 DR7: 00000400
[  139.924982] Process acpid (pid: 3070, ti=cc02c000 task=d7705340 task.ti=cc02c000)
[  139.924982] Stack:
[  139.924982]  c1203c88 00000000 cc02def4 cf4d2a1c ae21eefa 471b60d5 1083c1ba c26a5940
[  139.924982]  e891fb5e 00000041 00000004 cc02df1c c1203964 00000000 cc02df4c c10e20c3
[  139.924982]  00000002 00000000 00000000 22222222 c1ff2222 cf5ef000 00000000 d76efb08
[  139.924982] Call Trace:
[  139.924982]  [<c1203c88>] ? evm_update_evmxattr+0x5b/0x62
[  139.924982]  [<c1203964>] evm_inode_post_setattr+0x22/0x26
[  139.924982]  [<c10e20c3>] notify_change+0x25f/0x281
[  139.924982]  [<c10cbf56>] chmod_common+0x59/0x76
[  139.924982]  [<c10e27a1>] ? put_unused_fd+0x33/0x33
[  139.924982]  [<c10cca09>] sys_fchmod+0x39/0x5c
[  139.924982]  [<c13f4f30>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
[  139.924982] Code:  Bad EIP value.

This happens because sockets do not define the removexattr operation.
Before removing the xattr, verify the removexattr function pointer is
not NULL.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.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: evm_crypto.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -205,9 +205,9 @@ int evm_update_evmxattr(struct dentry *dentry, const char *xattr_name,
 		rc = __vfs_setxattr_noperm(dentry, XATTR_NAME_EVM,
 					   &xattr_data,
 					   sizeof(xattr_data), 0);
-	}
-	else if (rc == -ENODATA)
+	} else if (rc == -ENODATA && inode->i_op->removexattr) {
 		rc = inode->i_op->removexattr(dentry, XATTR_NAME_EVM);
+	}
 	return rc;
 }
 

programming_language: C