On 5/28/19 8:32 AM, Jann Horn wrote:
> A packed AppArmor policy contains null-terminated tag strings that are read
> by unpack_nameX(). However, unpack_nameX() uses string functions on them
> without ensuring that they are actually null-terminated, potentially
> leading to out-of-bounds accesses.
> 
> Make sure that the tag string is null-terminated before passing it to
> strcmp().
> 
> Cc: [email protected]
> Signed-off-by: Jann Horn <[email protected]>

gah! yes!

Acked-by: John Johansen <[email protected]>


> ---
> Warning: The existence of this bug has not been verified at runtime, and
> the patch is compile-tested only. I noticed this while browsing through
> the code, but didn't want to spend the time necessary to figure out how
> to actually test this at runtime.
> 
> 
>  security/apparmor/policy_unpack.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/security/apparmor/policy_unpack.c 
> b/security/apparmor/policy_unpack.c
> index f6c2bcb2ab14..33041c4fb69f 100644
> --- a/security/apparmor/policy_unpack.c
> +++ b/security/apparmor/policy_unpack.c
> @@ -276,7 +276,7 @@ static bool unpack_nameX(struct aa_ext *e, enum aa_code 
> code, const char *name)
>               char *tag = NULL;
>               size_t size = unpack_u16_chunk(e, &tag);
>               /* if a name is specified it must match. otherwise skip tag */
> -             if (name && (!size || strcmp(name, tag)))
> +             if (name && (!size || tag[size-1] != '\0' || strcmp(name, tag)))
>                       goto fail;
>       } else if (name) {
>               /* if a name is specified and there is no name tag fail */
> 

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