Bug 1371487 - RPM: OOB read in headerSigVerify()
Summary: RPM: OOB read in headerSigVerify()
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1372685 1373107
Blocks: 1357448
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Reported: 2016-08-30 10:14 UTC by Cedric Buissart
Modified: 2021-02-17 03:25 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2017-01-24 11:07:34 UTC
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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]
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