On Wed 21-06-17 17:17:20, Kees Cook wrote:
> When limiting the argv/envp strings during exec to 1/4 of the stack limit,
> the storage of the pointers to the strings was not included. This means
> that an exec with huge numbers of tiny strings could eat 1/4 of the
> stack limit in strings and then additional space would be later used
> by the pointers to the strings. For example, on 32-bit with a 8MB stack
> rlimit, an exec with 1677721 single-byte strings would consume less than
> 2MB of stack, the max (8MB / 4) amount allowed, but the pointers to the
> strings would consume the remaining additional stack space (1677721 *
> 4 == 6710884). The result (1677721 + 6710884 == 8388605) would exhaust
> stack space entirely. Controlling this stack exhaustion could result in
> pathological behavior in setuid binaries (CVE-2017-1000365).
>
> Fixes: b6a2fea39318 ("mm: variable length argument support")
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> fs/exec.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++----
> 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/fs/exec.c b/fs/exec.c
> index 72934df68471..8079ca70cfda 100644
> --- a/fs/exec.c
> +++ b/fs/exec.c
> @@ -220,8 +220,18 @@ static struct page *get_arg_page(struct linux_binprm *bprm, unsigned long pos,
>
> if (write) {
> unsigned long size = bprm->vma->vm_end - bprm->vma->vm_start;
> + unsigned long ptr_size;
> struct rlimit *rlim;
>
> + /*
> + * Since the stack will hold pointers to the strings, we
> + * must account for them as well.
> + */
> + ptr_size = (bprm->argc + bprm->envc) * sizeof(void *);
> + if (ptr_size > ULONG_MAX - size)
> + goto fail;
> + size += ptr_size;
> +
> acct_arg_size(bprm, size / PAGE_SIZE);
Doesn't this over account? I mean this gets called for partial arguments
as they fit into a page so a single argument can get into this function
multiple times AFAIU. I also do not understand why would you want to
account bprm->argc + bprm->envc pointers for each argument.
>
> /*
> @@ -239,13 +249,15 @@ static struct page *get_arg_page(struct linux_binprm *bprm, unsigned long pos,
> * to work from.
> */
> rlim = current->signal->rlim;
> - if (size > ACCESS_ONCE(rlim[RLIMIT_STACK].rlim_cur) / 4) {
> - put_page(page);
> - return NULL;
> - }
> + if (size > READ_ONCE(rlim[RLIMIT_STACK].rlim_cur) / 4)
> + goto fail;
> }
>
> return page;
> +
> +fail:
> + put_page(page);
> + return NULL;
> }
>
> static void put_arg_page(struct page *page)
> --
> 2.7.4
>
>
> --
> Kees Cook
> Pixel Security
>
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