From: John Reiser <jreiser@BitWagon.com>
To: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, security@kernel.org
Subject: /dev/urandom uses uninit bytes, leaks user data
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 11:34:09 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4762DAB1.1020807@BitWagon.com> (raw)
xfer_secondary_pool() in drivers/char/random.c tells add_entropy_words()
to use uninitialized tmp[] whenever bytes is not a multiple of 4.
Besides being unfriendly to automated dynamic checkers, this is a
potential leak of user data into the output stream. When called from
extract_entropy_user, then uninit tmp[] can capture leftover data
from a previous copy_from_user().
Signed off by: jreiser@BitWagon.com
--- ./drivers/char/random.c.orig 2007-12-14 11:06:03.000000000 -0800
+++ ./drivers/char/random.c 2007-12-14 11:06:57.000000000 -0800
@@ -708,7 +708,19 @@
bytes=extract_entropy(r->pull, tmp, bytes,
random_read_wakeup_thresh / 8, rsvd);
- add_entropy_words(r, tmp, (bytes + 3) / 4);
+ /*
+ * 2007-12-13 (valgrind/memcheck) Do not use undefined bytes.
+ * Avoid info leak when called from extract_entropy_user:
+ * uninit tmp[] can have data from previous copy_from_user().
+ * Instead: fill last word using first bytes.
+ */
+ {
+ __u8 *src = (__u8 *)&tmp[0];
+ __u8 *dst = bytes + src;
+ for (; 0!=(3 & bytes); ++bytes)
+ *dst++ = *src++;
+ }
+ add_entropy_words(r, tmp, bytes>>2);
credit_entropy_store(r, bytes*8);
}
--
John Reiser, jreiser@BitWagon.com
next reply other threads:[~2007-12-14 19:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-14 19:34 John Reiser [this message]
2007-12-14 20:13 ` /dev/urandom uses uninit bytes, leaks user data Matt Mackall
2007-12-14 20:45 ` John Reiser
2007-12-14 23:23 ` Theodore Tso
2007-12-15 0:30 ` John Reiser
2007-12-15 4:32 ` Theodore Tso
2007-12-17 16:30 ` John Reiser
2007-12-17 17:36 ` Theodore Tso
2007-12-18 0:52 ` Andy Lutomirski
2007-12-18 3:05 ` Theodore Tso
2007-12-18 3:13 ` David Newall
2007-12-18 3:46 ` Theodore Tso
2007-12-18 4:09 ` David Newall
2007-12-18 4:23 ` Theodore Tso
2007-12-19 22:43 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-12-19 22:40 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-12-20 4:18 ` Andrew Lutomirski
2007-12-20 20:17 ` Phillip Susi
2007-12-21 16:10 ` Andrew Lutomirski
2007-12-22 1:14 ` Theodore Tso
2007-12-26 18:30 ` Phillip Susi
2007-12-20 20:36 ` Theodore Tso
2007-12-27 10:44 ` Pavel Machek
2007-12-18 5:12 ` David Schwartz
2007-12-17 20:59 ` David Schwartz
2007-12-15 7:13 ` Herbert Xu
2007-12-15 16:30 ` Matt Mackall
2007-12-17 17:28 ` Signed divides vs shifts (Re: [Security] /dev/urandom uses uninit bytes, leaks user data) Linus Torvalds
2007-12-17 17:48 ` Al Viro
2007-12-17 17:55 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-12-17 18:05 ` Ray Lee
2007-12-17 18:10 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-12-17 18:12 ` Ray Lee
2007-12-17 18:23 ` Al Viro
2007-12-17 18:28 ` [Security] Signed divides vs shifts (Re: " Linus Torvalds
2007-12-17 19:08 ` Al Viro
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-12-15 7:20 /dev/urandom uses uninit bytes, leaks user data Matti Linnanvuori
2007-12-15 7:54 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2007-12-15 22:44 linux
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