* [PATCH] apparmor: fix out-of-bounds write when null terminating a label vec
@ 2026-08-10 9:51 Hyunwoo Kim
2026-08-10 23:56 ` John Johansen
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Hyunwoo Kim @ 2026-08-10 9:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: john.johansen, georgia.garcia, paul, jmorris, serge,
maxime.belair, cengiz.can
Cc: apparmor, linux-security-module, imv4bel
aa_vec_unique() null terminates at vec[n - dups] when VEC_FLAG_TERMINATE
is passed. If the components are all distinct no duplicates are dropped,
dups is 0 and the terminator goes to vec[n], so the caller has to provide
room for n + 1 entries.
aa_label_strn_parse() sets up its vector with vec_setup(profile, vec, len,
gfp) and then calls aa_vec_unique(vec, len, VEC_FLAG_TERMINATE), but
vec_setup() does not reserve the terminator entry. Up to LOCAL_VEC_ENTRIES
it uses the local array of LOCAL_VEC_ENTRIES pointers, above that it
allocates exactly len pointers. The terminator therefore lands one entry
past the end of the local array when len is LOCAL_VEC_ENTRIES, and one
entry past the end of the allocation when len is larger.
len comes from the number of "//&" separated components in the label name
and label_count_strn_entries() does not bound it. An unprivileged task
reaches the parse by writing to /proc/self/attr/apparmor/current or through
lsm_set_self_attr(2), both of which go through do_setattr(), and the name
is parsed before the change_profile permission is checked.
The query_label() path behind the securityfs .access file, which is
mode 0666, performs no permission check at all. Every component has to
resolve to a loaded profile, so a system with policy loaded is required.
The other two VEC_FLAG_TERMINATE users work on a label vec that
aa_label_alloc() has already sized with "+ 1 for null terminator entry on
vec". Reserve the same entry in vec_setup() and DEFINE_VEC(). Passing
len + 1 from the caller instead would move len == LOCAL_VEC_ENTRIES out of
the local array and into kzalloc().
Fixes: f1bd904175e8 ("apparmor: add the base fns() for domain labels")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Hyunwoo Kim <imv4bel@gmail.com>
---
security/apparmor/include/label.h | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/security/apparmor/include/label.h b/security/apparmor/include/label.h
index b5a722a47fd2c8..37cb135de32320 100644
--- a/security/apparmor/include/label.h
+++ b/security/apparmor/include/label.h
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ struct aa_ruleset;
#define LOCAL_VEC_ENTRIES 8
#define DEFINE_VEC(T, V) \
- struct aa_ ## T *(_ ## V ## _localtmp)[LOCAL_VEC_ENTRIES]; \
+ struct aa_ ## T *(_ ## V ## _localtmp)[LOCAL_VEC_ENTRIES + 1]; \
struct aa_ ## T **(V)
#define vec_setup(T, V, N, GFP) \
@@ -31,10 +31,10 @@ struct aa_ruleset;
if ((N) <= LOCAL_VEC_ENTRIES) { \
typeof(N) i; \
(V) = (_ ## V ## _localtmp); \
- for (i = 0; i < (N); i++) \
+ for (i = 0; i <= (N); i++) \
(V)[i] = NULL; \
} else \
- (V) = kzalloc(sizeof(struct aa_ ## T *) * (N), (GFP)); \
+ (V) = kzalloc_objs(struct aa_ ## T *, (N) + 1, (GFP)); \
(V) ? 0 : -ENOMEM; \
})
--
2.43.0
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* Re: [PATCH] apparmor: fix out-of-bounds write when null terminating a label vec
2026-08-10 9:51 [PATCH] apparmor: fix out-of-bounds write when null terminating a label vec Hyunwoo Kim
@ 2026-08-10 23:56 ` John Johansen
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: John Johansen @ 2026-08-10 23:56 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Hyunwoo Kim, georgia.garcia, paul, jmorris, serge, maxime.belair,
cengiz.can
Cc: apparmor, linux-security-module
On 8/10/26 02:51, Hyunwoo Kim wrote:
> aa_vec_unique() null terminates at vec[n - dups] when VEC_FLAG_TERMINATE
> is passed. If the components are all distinct no duplicates are dropped,
> dups is 0 and the terminator goes to vec[n], so the caller has to provide
> room for n + 1 entries.
>
> aa_label_strn_parse() sets up its vector with vec_setup(profile, vec, len,
> gfp) and then calls aa_vec_unique(vec, len, VEC_FLAG_TERMINATE), but
> vec_setup() does not reserve the terminator entry. Up to LOCAL_VEC_ENTRIES
> it uses the local array of LOCAL_VEC_ENTRIES pointers, above that it
> allocates exactly len pointers. The terminator therefore lands one entry
> past the end of the local array when len is LOCAL_VEC_ENTRIES, and one
> entry past the end of the allocation when len is larger.
>
> len comes from the number of "//&" separated components in the label name
> and label_count_strn_entries() does not bound it. An unprivileged task
> reaches the parse by writing to /proc/self/attr/apparmor/current or through
> lsm_set_self_attr(2), both of which go through do_setattr(), and the name
> is parsed before the change_profile permission is checked.
> The query_label() path behind the securityfs .access file, which is
> mode 0666, performs no permission check at all. Every component has to
> resolve to a loaded profile, so a system with policy loaded is required.
>
> The other two VEC_FLAG_TERMINATE users work on a label vec that
> aa_label_alloc() has already sized with "+ 1 for null terminator entry on
> vec". Reserve the same entry in vec_setup() and DEFINE_VEC(). Passing
> len + 1 from the caller instead would move len == LOCAL_VEC_ENTRIES out of
> the local array and into kzalloc().
>
> Fixes: f1bd904175e8 ("apparmor: add the base fns() for domain labels")
> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Hyunwoo Kim <imv4bel@gmail.com>
Acked-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
I have pulled this into my tree
> ---
> security/apparmor/include/label.h | 6 +++---
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/security/apparmor/include/label.h b/security/apparmor/include/label.h
> index b5a722a47fd2c8..37cb135de32320 100644
> --- a/security/apparmor/include/label.h
> +++ b/security/apparmor/include/label.h
> @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ struct aa_ruleset;
>
> #define LOCAL_VEC_ENTRIES 8
> #define DEFINE_VEC(T, V) \
> - struct aa_ ## T *(_ ## V ## _localtmp)[LOCAL_VEC_ENTRIES]; \
> + struct aa_ ## T *(_ ## V ## _localtmp)[LOCAL_VEC_ENTRIES + 1]; \
> struct aa_ ## T **(V)
>
> #define vec_setup(T, V, N, GFP) \
> @@ -31,10 +31,10 @@ struct aa_ruleset;
> if ((N) <= LOCAL_VEC_ENTRIES) { \
> typeof(N) i; \
> (V) = (_ ## V ## _localtmp); \
> - for (i = 0; i < (N); i++) \
> + for (i = 0; i <= (N); i++) \
> (V)[i] = NULL; \
> } else \
> - (V) = kzalloc(sizeof(struct aa_ ## T *) * (N), (GFP)); \
> + (V) = kzalloc_objs(struct aa_ ## T *, (N) + 1, (GFP)); \
> (V) ? 0 : -ENOMEM; \
> })
>
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