On 2020-04-20 17:36, Paul Moore wrote:
> Commit 756125289285 ("audit: always check the netlink payload length
> in audit_receive_msg()") fixed a number of missing message length
> checks, but forgot to check the length of userspace generated audit
> records. The good news is that you need CAP_AUDIT_WRITE to submit
> userspace audit records, which is generally only given to trusted
> processes, so the impact should be limited.
>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Fixes: 756125289285 ("audit: always check the netlink payload length in
> audit_receive_msg()")
> Reported-by: [email protected]
> Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <[email protected]>
> ---
> kernel/audit.c | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c
> index b69c8b460341..87f31bf1f0a0 100644
> --- a/kernel/audit.c
> +++ b/kernel/audit.c
> @@ -1326,6 +1326,9 @@ static int audit_receive_msg(struct sk_buff *skb,
> struct nlmsghdr *nlh)
> case AUDIT_FIRST_USER_MSG2 ... AUDIT_LAST_USER_MSG2:
> if (!audit_enabled && msg_type != AUDIT_USER_AVC)
> return 0;
> + /* exit early if there isn't at least one character to print */
> + if (data_len < 2)
> + return -EINVAL;
Don't we want to issue the record even if the message is empty? If a
len of 1 is passed in, it will properly set str[0] = '\0' and str points
to a location with a null that prints nothing between the single quotes
of "msg=''". So, I think that should be "if (data_len < 1)".
Am I missing something?
> err = audit_filter(msg_type, AUDIT_FILTER_USER);
> if (err == 1) { /* match or error */
>
- RGB
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