Bug 578057 (CVE-2010-1187)

Summary: CVE-2010-1187 kernel: tipc: Fix oops on send prior to entering networked mode
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Eugene Teo (Security Response) <eteo>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: dhoward, lwang, nhorman, plyons, rkhan, tao
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Description Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2010-03-30 05:36:14 UTC
Description of problem:
tipc: Fix oops on send prior to entering networked mode (v3)

Fix TIPC to disallow sending to remote addresses prior to entering NET_MODE

user programs can oops the kernel by sending datagrams via AF_TIPC prior to
entering networked mode.  The following backtrace has been observed:

ID: 13459  TASK: ffff810014640040  CPU: 0   COMMAND: "tipc-client"
[exception RIP: tipc_node_select_next_hop+90]
RIP: ffffffff8869d3c3  RSP: ffff81002d9a5ab8  RFLAGS: 00010202
RAX: 0000000000000001  RBX: 0000000000000001  RCX: 0000000000000001
RDX: 0000000000000000  RSI: 0000000000000001  RDI: 0000000001001001
RBP: 0000000001001001   R8: 0074736575716552   R9: 0000000000000000
R10: ffff81003fbd0680  R11: 00000000000000c8  R12: 0000000000000008
R13: 0000000000000001  R14: 0000000000000001  R15: ffff810015c6ca00
ORIG_RAX: ffffffffffffffff  CS: 0010  SS: 0018
RIP: 0000003cbd8d49a3  RSP: 00007fffc84e0be8  RFLAGS: 00010206
RAX: 000000000000002c  RBX: ffffffff8005d116  RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: 0000000000000008  RSI: 00007fffc84e0c00  RDI: 0000000000000003
RBP: 0000000000000000   R8: 00007fffc84e0c10   R9: 0000000000000010
R10: 0000000000000000  R11: 0000000000000246  R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 00007fffc84e0d10  R14: 0000000000000000  R15: 00007fffc84e0c30
ORIG_RAX: 000000000000002c  CS: 0033  SS: 002b

What happens is that, when the tipc module in inserted it enters a standalone
node mode in which communication to its own address is allowed <0.0.0> but not
to other addresses, since the appropriate data structures have not been
allocated yet (specifically the tipc_net pointer).  There is nothing stopping a
client from trying to send such a message however, and if that happens, we
attempt to dereference tipc_net.zones while the pointer is still NULL, and
explode.  The fix is pretty straightforward.  Since these oopses all arise from
the dereference of global pointers prior to their assignment to allocated
values, and since these allocations are small (about 2k total), lets convert
these pointers to static arrays of the appropriate size.  All the accesses to
these bits consider 0/NULL to be a non match when searching, so all the lookups
still work properly, and there is no longer a chance of a bad dererence
anywhere.  As a bonus, this lets us eliminate the setup/teardown routines for
those pointers, and elimnates the need to preform any locking around them to
prevent access while their being allocated/freed.

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.git;a=commit;h=d0021b252eaf65ca07ed14f0d66425dd9ccab9a6

Comment 1 Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2010-03-30 05:37:06 UTC
TIPC - Transparent Inter-Process Communication protocol

Discussion: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.git;a=commit;h=d0021b252eaf65ca07ed14f0d66425dd9ccab9a6
Patch: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/46856/

Comment 4 Eugene Teo (Security Response) 2010-05-19 16:37:06 UTC
Statement:

Red Hat is aware of this issue and is tracking it via the following bug:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/CVE-2010-1187.

This issue did not affect the version of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 3, 4 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG as they did not include support for Transparent Inter-Process Communication Protocol (TIPC). A future kernel update in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 may address this flaw.

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2010-07-01 18:27:53 UTC
This issue has been addressed in following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Via RHSA-2010:0504 https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2010-0504.html