Bug 1371487

Summary:	RPM: OOB read in headerSigVerify()
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Cedric Buissart <cbuissar>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	ffesti, security-response-team, slawomir
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Bug Depends On:	1372685, 1373107
Bug Blocks:	1357448

Description Cedric Buissart 2016-08-30 10:14:48 UTC

A heap based out-of-bound (OOB) read was discovered in RPM headerSigVerify() function, when doing a sanity check of the RPM headers. An attacker could trick a system administrator into reading a specially crafted RPM file, resulting in the crash of the RPM command.
The OOB read happens before the signature verification, thus the RPM does not need to be signed for the OOB to happen.

Upstream fix :
https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/commit/89dce2b

Comment 1 Cedric Buissart 2016-08-30 10:14:53 UTC

Acknowledgments:

Name: Francisco Alonso

Comment 2 Cedric Buissart 2016-08-30 10:24:53 UTC

Valgrind backtrace:

==11445== Invalid read of size 8   
==11445==    at 0x4C2E25E: memcpy@@GLIBC_2.14 (in /usr/lib64/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so)
==11445==    by 0x4E62530: UnknownInlinedFun (string3.h:51)
==11445==    by 0x4E62530: headerSigVerify (package.c:240)
==11445==    by 0x4E62530: headerVerify (package.c:363)
==11445==    by 0x4E62915: rpmpkgReadHeader (package.c:457)
==11445==    by 0x4E62BEA: rpmpkgRead (package.c:578)
==11445==    by 0x4E6352D: rpmReadPackageFile (package.c:717)
==11445==    by 0x4E6EB81: rpmgiReadHeader (rpmgi.c:90)
==11445==    by 0x4E6EB81: rpmgiLoadReadHeader (rpmgi.c:126)
==11445==    by 0x4E6EB81: rpmgiNext (rpmgi.c:216)
==11445==    by 0x4E671D8: rpmgiShowMatches (query.c:274)
==11445==    by 0x4E671D8: rpmcliArgIter (query.c:518)
==11445==    by 0x4E672A6: rpmcliQuery (query.c:568)
==11445==    by 0x401918: main (rpmqv.c:304)

Vulnerable code :
sigtd.data = memcpy(xmalloc(siglen), dataStart + info.offset, siglen);

While sanity checking a SHA1HEADER, RSAHEADER or DSAHEADER tag entry, there is no check that 'dataStart + info.offset + siglen' remains in the malloc'ed boundary.

Comment 3 Cedric Buissart 2016-09-02 11:29:39 UTC

Created rpm tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1372685]