Bug 1685286

Summary: systemd: memory leak on invalid D-Bus message
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Felix Riemann <friemann>
Component: systemdAssignee: systemd-maint
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 29CC: lnykryn, msekleta, ssahani, s, systemd-maint, zbyszek
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Description Felix Riemann 2019-03-04 21:36:04 UTC
Description of problem:
Taking a closer look at the recent CVE-2019-6454 I was sending D-Bus messages with large path strings to PID 1.

While the patched package doesn't seem to crash anymore it seems to leak the memory associated with the messages.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

systemd-239-12.git8bca462.fc29

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Check PID1's memory usage:
 grep -i Rss /proc/1/status
 VmRSS:	    7960 kB
 RssAnon:	    4296 kB
 RssFile:	    3664 kB
 RssShmem:	       0 kB
2. Send invalid messages to PID1:
 for i in `seq 1 10`; do gdbus call -y -d org.freedesktop.systemd1 -m org.freedesktop.systemd1.Manager.StartUnit -o "/$(for x in `seq 0 28000`; do echo -n $x; done)"; done

Note that this takes some time as gdbus waits for a reply. This makes each message at least ~128KiB large due to the path string.

3.Check PID1's memory usage:
 grep -i Rss /proc/1/status
 VmRSS:	   10600 kB
 RssAnon:	    6936 kB
 RssFile:	    3664 kB
 RssShmem:	       0 kB


Actual results:
PID 1 drops the invalid D-Bus message, but doesn't seem to release all associated ressources.

Expected results:
PID 1 drops the invalid D-Bus message and releases all associated ressources.

Additional info:
PID1 nicely logs that it drops the messages if log level is set to 'debug':
systemd[1]: Received invalid message from connection bus-api-system, dropping.

Comment 1 Felix Riemann 2019-03-04 21:52:34 UTC
Improved (re-)producer:

for i in `seq 1 30`; do gdbus call -y -d org.freedesktop.systemd1 -m org.freedesktop.systemd1.Manager.StartUnit -o "/$(for x in `seq 0 28000`; do echo -n $x; done)" & done

This adds several megabytes to the equation at once:

#  grep -i Rss /proc/1/status
VmRSS:	   67272 kB
RssAnon:	   63424 kB
RssFile:	    3848 kB
RssShmem:	       0 kB

#  grep -i Rss /proc/1/status
VmRSS:	   74664 kB
RssAnon:	   70816 kB
RssFile:	    3848 kB
RssShmem:	       0 kB

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2019-03-29 16:45:11 UTC
grub2-2.02-75.fc30 systemd-241-4.gitcbf14c9.fc30 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 30. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-616045ca76

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2019-03-29 20:32:38 UTC
grub2-2.02-75.fc30, systemd-241-4.gitcbf14c9.fc30 has been pushed to the Fedora 30 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.
See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for
instructions on how to install test updates.
You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-616045ca76

Comment 4 Felix Riemann 2019-03-31 20:17:39 UTC
Gave a +1 on Bodhi as the leak seems to gone with the systemd-241-4.gitcbf14c9.fc30. :)

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2019-04-01 00:01:24 UTC
grub2-2.02-75.fc30, systemd-241-4.gitcbf14c9.fc30 has been pushed to the Fedora 30 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.