[PATCH] selinux: stricter parsing in mls_context_to_sid()

From: Jann Horn
Date: Fri Aug 03 2018 - 05:36:16 EST


mls_context_to_sid incorrectly accepted MLS context strings that are
followed by a dash and trailing garbage.

Before this change, the following command works:

# mount -t tmpfs -o 'context=system_u:object_r:tmp_t:s0-s0:c0-BLAH' \
none mount

After this change, it fails with the following error message in dmesg:

SELinux: security_context_str_to_sid(system_u:object_r:tmp_t:s0-s0:c0-BLAH)
failed for (dev tmpfs, type tmpfs) errno=-22

This is not an important bug; but it is a small quirk that was useful for
exploiting a vulnerability in fusermount.

This patch does not change the behavior when the policy does not have MLS
enabled.

Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <jannh@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
security/selinux/ss/mls.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/security/selinux/ss/mls.c b/security/selinux/ss/mls.c
index 39475fb455bc..2c73d612d2ee 100644
--- a/security/selinux/ss/mls.c
+++ b/security/selinux/ss/mls.c
@@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ int mls_context_to_sid(struct policydb *pol,
break;
}
}
- if (delim == '-') {
+ if (delim == '-' && l == 0) {
/* Extract high sensitivity. */
scontextp = p;
while (*p && *p != ':')
--
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