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Fix segmentation fault on empty signature key

PATCH In review Tobias Stoeckmann 2 participants 3 messages Feb 14, 2015 – Feb 18, 2015

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PATCH 1/1 Fix segmentation fault on empty signature key

Hi,

a segmentation fault occurs if a module has an empty key attached to its signature.

This happens because it's assumed that at least one key byte is available, subtracting it in libkmod-module line 2249. This -1 value is casted to an unsigned data type later on, resulting in illegal memory access.

Attached please find a proof of concept module, tested on amd64:

tobias:~$ modinfo 0sig.ko
filename:       /home/tobias/0sig.ko
Segmentation fault

Tobias

---
 libkmod/libkmod-module.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
libkmod/libkmod-module.c +2 -1
index 30f15ca..ca703a7 100644
@@ -2246,7 +2246,8 @@ KMOD_EXPORT int kmod_module_get_info(const struct kmod_module *mod, struct kmod_
 				key_hex[i * 3 + 2] = ':';
 		}
 		n = kmod_module_info_append(list, "sig_key", strlen("sig_key"),
-				key_hex, sig_info.key_id_len * 3 - 1);
+				key_hex, sig_info.key_id_len == 0 ? 0 :
+				sig_info.key_id_len * 3 - 1);
 		free(key_hex);
 		if (n == NULL)
 			goto list_error;
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Quoted 10 lines · Tobias Stoeckmann

Hi,

a segmentation fault occurs if a module has an empty key attached to its signature.

This happens because it's assumed that at least one key byte is available, subtracting it in libkmod-module line 2249. This -1 value is casted to an unsigned data type later on, resulting in illegal memory access.

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Attached please find a proof of concept module, tested on amd64:

tobias:~$ modinfo 0sig.ko
filename:       /home/tobias/0sig.ko
Segmentation fault

Same here, please also send the source code of the module. Even if for actually testing this behavior we have to ship a pre-compiled module, I want all the modules in the testsuite to have its source code in the testsuite to avoid license issues.

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Lucas De Marchi
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Quoted 26 lines · Tobias Stoeckmann

Hi,

a segmentation fault occurs if a module has an empty key attached to its signature.

This happens because it's assumed that at least one key byte is available, subtracting it in libkmod-module line 2249. This -1 value is casted to an unsigned data type later on, resulting in illegal memory access.

Attached please find a proof of concept module, tested on amd64:

tobias:~$ modinfo 0sig.ko
filename:       /home/tobias/0sig.ko
Segmentation fault

Tobias

---
 libkmod/libkmod-module.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
libkmod/libkmod-module.c +0 -0
index 30f15ca..ca703a7 100644

libkmod/libkmod-module.c KMOD_EXPORT int kmod_module_get_info(const struct kmod_module *mod, struct kmod_ · line 2250

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libkmod/libkmod-module.c +2 -1
@@ -2246,7 +2246,8 @@ KMOD_EXPORT int kmod_module_get_info(const struct kmod_module *mod, struct kmod_
                                key_hex[i * 3 + 2] = ':';
                }
                n = kmod_module_info_append(list, "sig_key", strlen("sig_key"),
-                               key_hex, sig_info.key_id_len * 3 - 1);
+                               key_hex, sig_info.key_id_len == 0 ? 0 :
+                               sig_info.key_id_len * 3 - 1);

This one I prefer changing kmod_module_signature_info() to do the right thing. This is because a 0 len signature is not a valid signature and I prefer outputting nothing in modinfo rather than a bogus signature.

Just pushed a commit changing kmod_module_signature_info(). Please take a look if it fixes your issue.

thanks

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Lucas De Marchi