[PATCH 4.9 06/44] fs/exec.c: account for argv/envp pointers

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2017-06-27T14:37:43Z

From: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>

commit 98da7d08850fb8bdeb395d6368ed15753304aa0c upstream.

When limiting the argv/envp strings during exec to 1/4 of the stack limit,
the storage of the pointers to the strings was not included. This means
that an exec with huge numbers of tiny strings could eat 1/4 of the stack
limit in strings and then additional space would be later used by the
pointers to the strings.

For example, on 32-bit with a 8MB stack rlimit, an exec with 1677721
single-byte strings would consume less than 2MB of stack, the max (8MB /
4) amount allowed, but the pointers to the strings would consume the
remaining additional stack space (1677721 * 4 == 6710884).

The result (1677721 + 6710884 == 8388605) would exhaust stack space
entirely. Controlling this stack exhaustion could result in
pathological behavior in setuid binaries (CVE-2017-1000365).

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: additional commenting from Kees]
Fixes: b6a2fea39318 ("mm: variable length argument support")
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170622001720.GA32173@beast
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Qualys Security Advisory <qsa@qualys.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
fs/exec.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/fs/exec.c
+++ b/fs/exec.c
@@ -215,8 +215,26 @@ static struct page *get_arg_page(struct

if (write) {
unsigned long size = bprm->vma->vm_end - bprm->vma->vm_start;
+ unsigned long ptr_size;
struct rlimit *rlim;

+ /*
+ * Since the stack will hold pointers to the strings, we
+ * must account for them as well.
+ *
+ * The size calculation is the entire vma while each arg page is
+ * built, so each time we get here it's calculating how far it
+ * is currently (rather than each call being just the newly
+ * added size from the arg page). As a result, we need to
+ * always add the entire size of the pointers, so that on the
+ * last call to get_arg_page() we'll actually have the entire
+ * correct size.
+ */
+ ptr_size = (bprm->argc + bprm->envc) * sizeof(void *);
+ if (ptr_size > ULONG_MAX - size)
+ goto fail;
+ size += ptr_size;
+
acct_arg_size(bprm, size / PAGE_SIZE);

/*
@@ -234,13 +252,15 @@ static struct page *get_arg_page(struct
* to work from.
*/
rlim = current->signal->rlim;
- if (size > ACCESS_ONCE(rlim[RLIMIT_STACK].rlim_cur) / 4) {
- put_page(page);
- return NULL;
- }
+ if (size > READ_ONCE(rlim[RLIMIT_STACK].rlim_cur) / 4)
+ goto fail;
}

return page;
+
+fail:
+ put_page(page);
+ return NULL;
}

static void put_arg_page(struct page *page)