CVE-2017-7895 (published 2017-04-28T10:59Z)

The NFSv2 and NFSv3 server implementations in the Linux kernel through 4.10.13 lack certain checks for the end of a buffer, which allows remote attackers to trigger pointer-arithmetic errors or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted requests, related to fs/nfsd/nfs3xdr.c and fs/nfsd/nfsxdr.c.

Severity: HIGH
CVSS v2 base score: 10.0 (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
CVSS v3 base score: 9.8, CRITICAL (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Weakness information:
cwe_id: CWE-119
cwe_name: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
description: The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.
extended_description: 
            Certain languages allow direct addressing of memory locations and do not automatically ensure that these locations are valid for the memory buffer that is being referenced. This can cause read or write operations to be performed on memory locations that may be associated with other variables, data structures, or internal program data.
         
         

Fix information:
repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
commit_details: repo_url: https://github.com/torvalds/linux
author: J. Bruce Fields
author_date: 2017-04-21 15:26:30-04:00
msg: nfsd: stricter decoding of write-like NFSv2/v3 ops

The NFSv2/v3 code does not systematically check whether we decode past
the end of the buffer.  This generally appears to be harmless, but there
are a few places where we do arithmetic on the pointers involved and
don't account for the possibility that a length could be negative.  Add
checks to catch these.

Reported-by: Tuomas Haanpää <thaan@synopsys.com>
Reported-by: Ari Kauppi <ari@synopsys.com>
Reviewed-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.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: nfs3xdr.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -369,6 +369,8 @@ nfs3svc_decode_writeargs(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, __be32 *p,
 	args->count = ntohl(*p++);
 	args->stable = ntohl(*p++);
 	len = args->len = ntohl(*p++);
+	if ((void *)p > head->iov_base + head->iov_len)
+		return 0;
 	/*
 	 * The count must equal the amount of data passed.
 	 */
@@ -472,6 +474,8 @@ nfs3svc_decode_symlinkargs(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, __be32 *p,
 	/* first copy and check from the first page */
 	old = (char*)p;
 	vec = &rqstp->rq_arg.head[0];
+	if ((void *)old > vec->iov_base + vec->iov_len)
+		return 0;
 	avail = vec->iov_len - (old - (char*)vec->iov_base);
 	while (len && avail && *old) {
 		*new++ = *old++;

programming_language: C
filename: nfsxdr.c
change_type: ModificationType.MODIFY
diff: @@ -302,6 +302,8 @@ nfssvc_decode_writeargs(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, __be32 *p,
 	 * bytes.
 	 */
 	hdr = (void*)p - head->iov_base;
+	if (hdr > head->iov_len)
+		return 0;
 	dlen = head->iov_len + rqstp->rq_arg.page_len - hdr;
 
 	/*

programming_language: C