Re: [PATCH v3] exec: load_script: Do not exec truncated interpreter path

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Fri Feb 15 2019 - 11:40:00 EST


On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 8:18 AM Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Not sure. Consider a script file which has a single line
>
> #!/path/to/interpreter
>
> WITHOUT '\n' at the end.

Heh. I'm not sure how valid that is, but it's an interesting case for sure.

But it's actually fairly easy to fix with the franken-approach I did
that combines mine and Kees' patches.

Does this work?

Linus
fs/binfmt_script.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/binfmt_script.c b/fs/binfmt_script.c
index 7cde3f46ad26..41be15701383 100644
--- a/fs/binfmt_script.c
+++ b/fs/binfmt_script.c
@@ -14,6 +14,29 @@
#include <linux/err.h>
#include <linux/fs.h>

+/*
+ * Do we have a terminating character between 'first' and 'last'
+ * (inclusive). This is the "we are truncating the script command
+ * line" case, and we know first < last.
+ *
+ * We skip leading whitespace, and then verify there's a space/tab
+ * or NUL before the end.
+ */
+static inline bool tabspc(char c) { return c == ' ' || c == '\t'; }
+static inline bool no_tab_or_space(const char *first, const char *last)
+{
+ // Skip leading space
+ for (;tabspc(*first) ; first++)
+ if (!*first || first == last)
+ return false; // only space
+ // Ok, 'first' points to first non-spc/tab/NUL
+ // Can we find another terminator after this?
+ while (++first <= last)
+ if (!*first || tabspc(*first))
+ return true;
+ return false;
+}
+
static int load_script(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
{
const char *i_arg, *i_name;
@@ -42,9 +65,12 @@ static int load_script(struct linux_binprm *bprm)
fput(bprm->file);
bprm->file = NULL;

- bprm->buf[BINPRM_BUF_SIZE - 1] = '\0';
- if ((cp = strchr(bprm->buf, '\n')) == NULL)
+ cp = strnchr(bprm->buf, BINPRM_BUF_SIZE, '\n');
+ if (!cp) {
cp = bprm->buf+BINPRM_BUF_SIZE-1;
+ if (no_tab_or_space(bprm->buf+2, cp))
+ return -ENOEXEC;
+ }
*cp = '\0';
while (cp > bprm->buf) {
cp--;