NetBSD Security Advisory 2023-002: Various compatibility syscall memory access issues
29 June, 2023 by security-officer@netbsd.org | netbsd
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NetBSD Security Advisory 2023-002
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Topic: Various compatibility syscall memory access issues
Version: NetBSD-current: affected before 2020-05-15
NetBSD 10.0_BETA: not affected
NetBSD 9.3: not affected
NetBSD 9.2: not affected
NetBSD 9.1: not affected
NetBSD 9.0: affected
NetBSD 8.2: affected
NetBSD 8.1: affected
NetBSD 8.0: affected
Severity: Local users can crash the machine
Fixed: NetBSD-current: 2020-05-15
NetBSD-10 branch: N/A
NetBSD-9 branch: 2020-05-15
NetBSD-8 branch: 2020-05-25
Please note that NetBSD releases prior to 8.2 are no longer supported.
It is recommended that all users upgrade to a supported release.
Abstract
========
Fix various info leaks, out of bound access, usage of uninitialized
values and direct access to userland variables from kernel space
and memory leaks in system calls implemented for the compatibility
subsystems. These bugs affect:
- compat_netbsd32
- compat_linux
- compat_linux32
Technical Details
=================
The following bugs were discovered using memory and address sanitizers:
- - Index out of bounds
(kernel crash)
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2019/08/23/msg108420.html
- - Incorrect buffer handling
(memory corruption)
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2019/08/24/msg108454.html
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2020/03/14/msg115069.html [*]
- - Missing free of temporary buffer
(memory leak)
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2019/08/24/msg108455.html
- - Bugs in the implementation of linux32_sys_get_robust_list
(missing functionality)
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2019/08/23/msg108428.html
- - Direct user data access
(not working with SMAP)
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2019/08/24/msg108449.html
- - Incorrect error code returned
(diagnostic)
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2019/08/23/msg108425.html
- - Insufficient zero initialization of arguments to compatibility syscalls
(information leak)
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2020/01/01/msg112486.html
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2019/08/23/msg108407.html
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2019/08/23/msg108408.html
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2019/08/23/msg108409.html
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2019/08/23/msg108414.html
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2019/08/23/msg108415.html
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2019/08/23/msg108417.html
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2019/08/23/msg108427.html
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2019/08/23/msg108429.html
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2019/08/23/msg108430.html
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2020/02/22/msg114240.html [*]
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2020/02/26/msg114478.html [*]
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2020/05/15/msg117350.html [**]
- - Debug printing fixes
(cosmetic)
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2019/08/23/msg108421.html
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2019/08/23/msg108426.html
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2019/08/24/msg108456.html
- - Uninitialized memory access
(harmless)
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2019/08/23/msg108423.html
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2019/08/23/msg108424.html
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2019/09/08/msg108869.html
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2020/04/19/msg116378.html [*]
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2020/05/14/msg117328.html [*]
- - Incorrect size passed to copyin
(harmless stack buffer overflow)
https://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2020/01/01/msg112456.html
Solutions and Workarounds
=========================
Update the kernel to a fixed version and reboot.
There are pre-built binaries for all architectures and NetBSD versions at:
https://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/
For example you can find the standard GENERIC kernel for NetBSD-9/amd64 at:
https://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-9/latest/amd64/binary/kernel/netbsd-GENERIC.gz
Alternatively to build 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 summarize how to upgrade your
kernel. In these instructions, replace:
ARCH with your architecture (from uname -m), and
KERNCONF with the name of your kernel configuration file.
To update from CVS, re-build, and re-install the kernel:
# cd src
# cvs update -d -P sys
# ./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/docs/guide/en/chap-kernel.html
The patches can be obtained from NetBSD-current with the following
commands:
cvs rdiff -u -r1.35 -r1.36 src/sys/compat/common/kern_sig_43.c
cvs rdiff -u -r1.58 -r1.59 src/sys/compat/linux/arch/amd64/linux_machdep.c
cvs rdiff -u -r1.17 -r1.18 src/sys/compat/linux/common/linux_fcntl.h
cvs rdiff -u -r1.60 -r1.62 src/sys/compat/linux/common/linux_file64.c
cvs rdiff -u -r1.56 -r1.57 src/sys/compat/linux/common/linux_ipc.c
cvs rdiff -u -r1.240 -r1.243 src/sys/compat/linux/common/linux_misc.c
cvs rdiff -u -r1.80 -r1.81 src/sys/compat/linux/common/linux_signal.c
cvs rdiff -u -r1.145 -r1.149 src/sys/compat/linux/common/linux_socket.c
cvs rdiff -u -r1.23 -r1.24 src/sys/compat/linux/common/linux_socket.h
cvs rdiff -u -r1.6 -r1.7 src/sys/compat/linux/common/linux_statfs.h
cvs rdiff -u -r1.37 -r1.38 src/sys/compat/linux/common/linux_termios.c
cvs rdiff -u -r1.21 -r1.22 src/sys/compat/linux/common/linux_termios.h
cvs rdiff -u -r1.19 -r1.20 src/sys/compat/linux32/common/linux32_dirent.c
cvs rdiff -u -r1.13 -r1.14 src/sys/compat/linux32/common/linux32_ioctl.c
cvs rdiff -u -r1.26 -r1.27 src/sys/compat/linux32/common/linux32_misc.c
cvs rdiff -u -r1.19 -r1.20 src/sys/compat/linux32/common/linux32_signal.c
cvs rdiff -u -r1.7 -r1.8 src/sys/compat/linux32/common/linux32_sysinfo.c
cvs rdiff -u -r1.14 -r1.15 src/sys/compat/linux32/common/linux32_termios.c
cvs rdiff -u -r1.9 -r1.10 src/sys/compat/linux32/common/linux32_utsname.c
cvs rdiff -u -r1.38 -r1.39 src/sys/compat/netbsd32/netbsd32_compat_20.c
cvs rdiff -u -r1.57 -r1.59 src/sys/compat/netbsd32/netbsd32_compat_43.c
cvs rdiff -u -r1.43 -r1.44 src/sys/compat/netbsd32/netbsd32_compat_50.c
cvs rdiff -u -r1.74 -r1.75 src/sys/compat/ossaudio/ossaudio.c
cvs rdiff -u -r1.82 -r1.83 src/sys/compat/ossaudio/ossaudio.c
cvs rdiff -u -r1.137 -r1.138 src/sys/kern/sysv_shm.c
cvs rdiff -u -r1.74 -r1.75 src/sys/miscfs/procfs/procfs_linux.c
cvs rdiff -u -r1.53 -r1.54 src/sys/sys/shm.h
Thanks To
=========
Maxime Villard for finding and fixing these vulnerabilities.
Revision History
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2023-06-28 Initial release
More Information
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$NetBSD: NetBSD-SA2023-002.txt,v 1.1 2023/06/28 15:29:21 christos Exp $
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