NetBSD Security Advisory 2016-004: Multiple vulnerabilities in the compatibility layers
21 April, 2016 by security-officer@netbsd.org | netbsd
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NetBSD Security Advisory 2016-004
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Topic: Multiple vulnerabilities in the compatibility layers
Version: NetBSD current: source prior to Sat, Aug 8th 2015
NetBSD 7.0: affected
NetBSD 6.1 - 6.1.4: affected
NetBSD 6.0 - 6.0.5: affected
Severity: Local DoS / Kernel execution redirection
Fixed: NetBSD-current: Sat, Aug 8th 2015
NetBSD-7.0: source prior to Sun, Aug 2nd 2015
NetBSD-6-0 branch: source prior to Thu, Apr 21st 2016
NetBSD-6-1 branch: source prior to Thu, Apr 21st 2016
NetBSD-6 branch: source prior to Thu, Apr 21st 2016
Teeny versions released later than the fix date will contain the fix.
Please note that NetBSD releases prior to 6.0 are no longer supported.
It is recommended that all users upgrade to a supported release.
Abstract
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Several compatibility layers are affected by several vulnerabilities:
1) NetBSD 32bit compatibility: Memory leak in sendmsg
2) NetBSD 32bit compatibility: Buffer Overflow in ioctl
3) Digital UNIX (formerly OSF/1) compatibility: Zero-sized
memory allocation
Each of them allows a local user to crash the system.
Technical Details
=================
For more clarity the layers affected will be referred to as COMPAT_xx,
where xx is the emulated system.
1) A memory leak COMPAT_NETBSD32's sendmsg system call could allow a
local unprivileged user to make the kernel run out of memory, and
eventually panic.
2) An inverted logic in COMPAT_NETBSD32's ioctl system call could allow
a local unprivileged user to control the size given to a memcpy on the
kernel side, thereby allowing that user to overwrite kernel heap.
3) Due to a missing input validation check in COMPAT_OSF1's sendmsg
system call, a user could cause the kernel to perform a zero-sized
memory allocation, resulting in a crash.
Solutions and Workarounds
=========================
- - Disable the compability modules
- ---------------------------------
You can achieve this with the modunload(8) tool. Please read the
appropriate manual page. For example, you can disable the Linux modules
by moving the kernel object files out of the way. These are located in:
/stand/${MACHINE_ARCH}/${KERNEL_VERSION}/modules/compat_${NAME}/compat_${NAME}.kmod
And running the following command to unload them:
# modunload compat_${NAME}
The modules have dependencies, so you need to unload them in the proper
order.
You can also disable these modules by rebuilding your kernel without the
COMPAT_${NAME} options.
Note however that it is to be considered as a temporary workaround, and
you are strongly advised to fix your system from source.
- - Fix from source
- -----------------
For all NetBSD versions, you need to obtain fixed kernel sources,
rebuild and install the new kernel, and reboot the system.
The fixed source may be obtained from the NetBSD CVS repository.
The following instructions briefly summarise how to upgrade your
kernel. In these instructions, replace:
ARCH with your architecture (from uname -m),
KERNCONF with the name of your kernel configuration file and
VERSION with the file version below
File versions containing the fixes:
FILE HEAD netbsd-7 netbsd-6 netbsd-6-1 netbsd-6-0
- ---- ---- -------- -------- ------------ ----------
src/sys/compat/netbsd32/netbsd32_socket.c
1.42 1.41.14.1 1.39.2.3 1.39.2.2.6.1 1.39.2.2.4.1
src/sys/compat/netbsd32/netbsd32_ioctl.c
1.82 1.69.4.1 1.64.8.2 1.64.14.1 1.64.12.1
src/sys/compat/osf1/osf1_socket.c
1.21 N/A 1.20.14.1 1.20.28.1 1.20.20.1
To update from CVS, re-build, and re-install the kernel:
# cd src
# cvs update -d -P -r VERSION sys/compat/netbsd32/netbsd32_socket.c
# cvs update -d -P -r VERSION sys/compat/netbsd32/netbsd32_ioctl.c
# cvs update -d -P -r VERSION sys/compat/osf1/osf1_socket.c
# ./build.sh kernel=KERNCONF
# mv /netbsd /netbsd.old
# cp sys/arch/ARCH/compile/obj/KERNCONF/netbsd /netbsd
# shutdown -r now
For more information on how to do this, see:
http://www.NetBSD.org/guide/en/chap-kernel.html
Thanks To
=========
Thanks to Maxime Villard for finding and fixing these issues.
Revision History
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2016-04-21 Initial release
More Information
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Advisories may be updated as new information becomes available.
The most recent version of this advisory (PGP signed) can be found at
http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2016-004.txt.asc
Information about NetBSD and NetBSD security can be found at
http://www.NetBSD.org/ and http://www.NetBSD.org/Security/ .
Copyright 2016, The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Redistribution permitted only in full, unmodified form.
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