Bug 1570980 - dbxtool fails to parse UEFI signature database (patch included)
Summary: dbxtool fails to parse UEFI signature database (patch included)
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: dbxtool
Version: 27
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Peter Jones
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-04-23 21:58 UTC by Michal Růžička
Modified: 2018-11-30 21:38 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-11-30 21:38:39 UTC
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Patch fixing UEFI Signature List iteration (3.13 KB, patch)
2018-04-23 21:58 UTC, Michal Růžička
no flags Details | Diff
Patch fixing UEFI Signature List iteration (3.13 KB, patch)
2018-04-25 10:13 UTC, Michal Růžička
no flags Details | Diff


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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Bugzilla 1508808 0 unspecified CLOSED dbxtool service fails to start - EFI Signature List is malformed 2022-03-24 22:56:43 UTC

Internal Links: 1508808

Description Michal Růžička 2018-04-23 21:58:11 UTC
Created attachment 1425753 [details]
Patch fixing UEFI Signature List iteration

Description of problem:
The dbxtool fails to display the content of the UEFI signature database (db) on my system when invoked like this:
  dbxtool --list --dbx /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/db-d719b2cb-3d3a-4596-a3bc-dad00e67656f 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
8-3.fc27

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. login to a system with more than one entry in its UEFI signature database (db)
2. run the following command while replacing the <guid> with a signature database GUID specific to your system:
  dbxtool --list --dbx /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/db-<guid>

Actual results:
Only the first entry is printed, after which an error is reported:
   1: {microsoft} {x509_cert} <certificate hex dump here>
dbxtool: EFI Signature List is malformed
dbxtool: list has 3991 bytes left, element is 1543 bytes

Expected results:
All entries are printed, no error is reported.

Additional info:
The problem seems to be in the EFI signature list iterator's esl_iter_next function. The attached patch
fixes it for me.

Comment 1 Michal Růžička 2018-04-25 10:13:21 UTC
Created attachment 1426574 [details]
Patch fixing UEFI Signature List iteration

Improved version of the patch with more appropriate validation.

Comment 2 Michal Růžička 2018-05-03 13:53:58 UTC
The bug is still present in Fedora 28.

Comment 3 Laszlo Ersek 2018-05-16 14:12:36 UTC
Hi Michal,

I've just found out about this BZ -- it looks like a duplicate of earlier bug 1508808. Fixing the issue is actually possible with a one-liner (more precisely: a one *character*) patch. Can you please check if the scratch builds in bug 1508808 comment 25 work for you? If they do, I suggest that we close bug 1570980 (i.e., this bug) as a duplicate of bug 1508808.

Thank you,
Laszlo

Comment 4 Michal Růžička 2018-05-17 20:16:29 UTC
Hi Laszlo,

the scratch build does fix the problem for me.

However as things stand now, the previously broken check is not performed for the very first element in the list.
In addition the X.509 certificate ASN.1 check performed just below the previously broken check - [1], is AFAICT duplicated by an identical check in the esd_iter_next function - [2].

My patch addresses both of these issues, so it might be worth considering using it in preference to the one liner from bug 1508808.

Thanks,
Michal

[1] https://github.com/rhboot/dbxtool/blob/338a2d097b79faba9505a913c2cfc5916b6ffa9a/src/iter.c#L231-L248
[2] https://github.com/rhboot/dbxtool/blob/338a2d097b79faba9505a913c2cfc5916b6ffa9a/src/iter.c#L104-L120

Comment 5 Laszlo Ersek 2018-05-18 11:25:35 UTC
OK, thanks for the feedback. Both BZs are now cross-referenced, so Peter should find them both regardless of which one he checks out first. Feel free to comment on the other BZ as well, of course! Peter should decide which BZ to close as the duplicate of the other.

Thank you!
Laszlo

Comment 6 Ben Cotton 2018-11-27 15:40:52 UTC
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