[PATCH] Audit: fix handling of 'strings' with NULL characters

Eric Paris
2008-09-11T21:50:25Z

currently audit_log_n_untrustedstring() uses
audit_string_contains_control() to check if the 'string' has any control
characters. If the 'string' has an embedded NULL
audit_string_contains_control() will return that the data has no control
characters and will then pass the string to audit_log_n_string with the
total length, not the length up to the first NULL. audit_log_n_string
does a memcpy of the entire length and so the actual audit record
emitted may then contain a NULL and then whatever random memory is after
the NULL.

Since we want to log the entire octet stream (if we can't trust the data
to be a string we can't trust that a NULL isn't actually a part of it)
we should just consider NULL as a control character. If the caller is
certain they want to stop at the first NULL they should be using
audit_log_untrustedstring.

Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>

---

Miloslav, this is also going to take care of nulls in the TTY_AUDIT_USER
message from userspace. Is it going to be common to have control
characters on that code path as well? Do you want to change
audit_receive_msg() to also use the hex encoding directly instead of the
_n_untrustedstring interface?

kernel/audit.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/audit.c b/kernel/audit.c
index 4414e93..ccb8d68 100644
--- a/kernel/audit.c
+++ b/kernel/audit.c
@@ -1370,7 +1370,7 @@ void audit_log_n_string(struct audit_buffer *ab, const char *string,
int audit_string_contains_control(const char *string, size_t len)
{
const unsigned char *p;
- for (p = string; p < (const unsigned char *)string + len && *p; p++) {
+ for (p = string; p < (const unsigned char *)string + len; p++) {
if (*p == '"' || *p < 0x21 || *p > 0x7e)
return 1;
}