Re: [PATCH 2/2] MPI: Fix mpi_powm() when exponent is 0 and the result has no limbs

From: Andrey Ryabinin
Date: Thu Nov 24 2016 - 06:20:34 EST


2016-11-24 11:51 GMT+03:00 David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> This fixes CVE-2016-8650.
>
> If mpi_powm() is given a zero exponent, it wants to immediately return
> either 1 or 0, depending on the modulus. However, if the result was
> initalised with zero limb space, no limbs space is allocated and a
> NULL-pointer exception ensues.
>
> Fix this by allocating a minimal amount of limb space for the result when
> handling the 0-exponent case.
>
> BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
> IP: [<ffffffff8138ce5d>] mpi_powm+0x32/0x7e6
> PGD 0
> Oops: 0002 [#1] SMP
> Modules linked in:
> CPU: 3 PID: 3014 Comm: keyctl Not tainted 4.9.0-rc6-fscache+ #278
> Hardware name: ASUS All Series/H97-PLUS, BIOS 2306 10/09/2014
> task: ffff8804011944c0 task.stack: ffff880401294000
> RIP: 0010:[<ffffffff8138ce5d>] [<ffffffff8138ce5d>] mpi_powm+0x32/0x7e6
> RSP: 0018:ffff880401297ad8 EFLAGS: 00010212
> RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff88040868bec0 RCX: ffff88040868bba0
> RDX: ffff88040868b260 RSI: ffff88040868bec0 RDI: ffff88040868bee0
> RBP: ffff880401297ba8 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
> R10: 0000000000000047 R11: ffffffff8183b210 R12: 0000000000000000
> R13: ffff8804087c7600 R14: 000000000000001f R15: ffff880401297c50
> FS: 00007f7a7918c700(0000) GS:ffff88041fb80000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
> CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
> CR2: 0000000000000000 CR3: 0000000401250000 CR4: 00000000001406e0
> Stack:
> ffff88040868bec0 0000000000000020 ffff880401297b00 ffffffff81376cd4
> 0000000000000100 ffff880401297b10 ffffffff81376d12 ffff880401297b30
> ffffffff81376f37 0000000000000100 0000000000000000 ffff880401297ba8
> Call Trace:
> [<ffffffff81376cd4>] ? __sg_page_iter_next+0x43/0x66
> [<ffffffff81376d12>] ? sg_miter_get_next_page+0x1b/0x5d
> [<ffffffff81376f37>] ? sg_miter_next+0x17/0xbd
> [<ffffffff8138ba3a>] ? mpi_read_raw_from_sgl+0xf2/0x146
> [<ffffffff8132a95c>] rsa_verify+0x9d/0xee
> [<ffffffff8132acca>] ? pkcs1pad_sg_set_buf+0x2e/0xbb
> [<ffffffff8132af40>] pkcs1pad_verify+0xc0/0xe1
> [<ffffffff8133cb5e>] public_key_verify_signature+0x1b0/0x228
> [<ffffffff8133d974>] x509_check_for_self_signed+0xa1/0xc4
> [<ffffffff8133cdde>] x509_cert_parse+0x167/0x1a1
> [<ffffffff8133d609>] x509_key_preparse+0x21/0x1a1
> [<ffffffff8133c3d7>] asymmetric_key_preparse+0x34/0x61
> [<ffffffff812fc9f3>] key_create_or_update+0x145/0x399
> [<ffffffff812fe227>] SyS_add_key+0x154/0x19e
> [<ffffffff81001c2b>] do_syscall_64+0x80/0x191
> [<ffffffff816825e4>] entry_SYSCALL64_slow_path+0x25/0x25
> Code: 56 41 55 41 54 53 48 81 ec a8 00 00 00 44 8b 71 04 8b 42 04 4c 8b 67 18 45 85 f6 89 45 80 0f 84 b4 06 00 00 85 c0 75 2f 41 ff ce <49> c7 04 24 01 00 00 00 b0 01 75 0b 48 8b 41 18 48 83 38 01 0f
> RIP [<ffffffff8138ce5d>] mpi_powm+0x32/0x7e6
> RSP <ffff880401297ad8>
> CR2: 0000000000000000
> ---[ end trace d82015255d4a5d8d ]---
>
> Fixes: cdec9cb5167a ('crypto: GnuPG based MPI lib - source files (part 1)')
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
> cc: Dmitry Kasatkin <dmitry.kasatkin@xxxxxxxxx>
> cc: linux-ima-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> ---
>
> lib/mpi/mpi-pow.c | 5 +++++
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/lib/mpi/mpi-pow.c b/lib/mpi/mpi-pow.c
> index 5464c8744ea9..d72d347e62d1 100644
> --- a/lib/mpi/mpi-pow.c
> +++ b/lib/mpi/mpi-pow.c
> @@ -64,6 +64,11 @@ int mpi_powm(MPI res, MPI base, MPI exp, MPI mod)
> if (!esize) {
> /* Exponent is zero, result is 1 mod MOD, i.e., 1 or 0
> * depending on if MOD equals 1. */
> + if (!rp) {
> + if (mpi_resize(res, 1) < 0)
> + return -ENOMEM;
> + rp = res->d;
> + }

I'm also made a fix for this yesterday -
http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1479918484-31952-1-git-send-email-aryabinin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
The only small difference is that in my the limb space is not
allocated when it's not needed, i.e. when res->nlimbs == 0.

> rp[0] = 1;
> res->nlimbs = (msize == 1 && mod->d[0] == 1) ? 0 : 1;
> res->sign = 0;
>