The following CIL policy triggers a heap use-after-free in secilc because when the blockinherit node is destroyed, the block node was already destroyed: (block b2a) (blockinherit b2a) Fix this by setting blockinherit->block to NULL when destroying block. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Iooss <nicolas.iooss@xxxxxxx> --- libsepol/cil/src/cil_build_ast.c | 19 ++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/libsepol/cil/src/cil_build_ast.c b/libsepol/cil/src/cil_build_ast.c index 02481558ad11..c6edcde6bc5d 100644 --- a/libsepol/cil/src/cil_build_ast.c +++ b/libsepol/cil/src/cil_build_ast.c @@ -231,13 +231,30 @@ exit: void cil_destroy_block(struct cil_block *block) { + struct cil_list_item *item; + struct cil_tree_node *bi_node; + struct cil_blockinherit *inherit; + if (block == NULL) { return; } cil_symtab_datum_destroy(&block->datum); cil_symtab_array_destroy(block->symtab); - cil_list_destroy(&block->bi_nodes, CIL_FALSE); + if (block->bi_nodes != NULL) { + /* unlink blockinherit->block */ + cil_list_for_each(item, block->bi_nodes) { + bi_node = item->data; + /* the conditions should always be true, but better be sure */ + if (bi_node->flavor == CIL_BLOCKINHERIT) { + inherit = bi_node->data; + if (inherit->block == block) { + inherit->block = NULL; + } + } + } + cil_list_destroy(&block->bi_nodes, CIL_FALSE); + } free(block); } -- 2.30.0