From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
patches@lists.linux.dev,
Qualys Security Advisory <qsa@qualys.com>,
Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>,
Georgia Garcia <georgia.garcia@canonical.com>,
Cengiz Can <cengiz.can@canonical.com>,
Massimiliano Pellizzer <massimiliano.pellizzer@canonical.com>,
John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
Subject: [PATCH 6.19 08/13] apparmor: fix missing bounds check on DEFAULT table in verify_dfa()
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 21:03:40 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260312200321.979206131@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260312200321.671986598@linuxfoundation.org>
6.19-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------
From: Massimiliano Pellizzer <massimiliano.pellizzer@canonical.com>
commit d352873bbefa7eb39995239d0b44ccdf8aaa79a4 upstream.
The verify_dfa() function only checks DEFAULT_TABLE bounds when the state
is not differentially encoded.
When the verification loop traverses the differential encoding chain,
it reads k = DEFAULT_TABLE[j] and uses k as an array index without
validation. A malformed DFA with DEFAULT_TABLE[j] >= state_count,
therefore, causes both out-of-bounds reads and writes.
[ 57.179855] ==================================================================
[ 57.180549] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in verify_dfa+0x59a/0x660
[ 57.180904] Read of size 4 at addr ffff888100eadec4 by task su/993
[ 57.181554] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 993 Comm: su Not tainted 6.19.0-rc7-next-20260127 #1 PREEMPT(lazy)
[ 57.181558] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014
[ 57.181563] Call Trace:
[ 57.181572] <TASK>
[ 57.181577] dump_stack_lvl+0x5e/0x80
[ 57.181596] print_report+0xc8/0x270
[ 57.181605] ? verify_dfa+0x59a/0x660
[ 57.181608] kasan_report+0x118/0x150
[ 57.181620] ? verify_dfa+0x59a/0x660
[ 57.181623] verify_dfa+0x59a/0x660
[ 57.181627] aa_dfa_unpack+0x1610/0x1740
[ 57.181629] ? __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x1d0/0x470
[ 57.181640] unpack_pdb+0x86d/0x46b0
[ 57.181647] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5
[ 57.181653] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5
[ 57.181656] ? aa_unpack_nameX+0x1a8/0x300
[ 57.181659] aa_unpack+0x20b0/0x4c30
[ 57.181662] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5
[ 57.181664] ? stack_depot_save_flags+0x33/0x700
[ 57.181681] ? kasan_save_track+0x4f/0x80
[ 57.181683] ? kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80
[ 57.181686] ? __kasan_kmalloc+0x93/0xb0
[ 57.181688] ? __kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x44a/0x780
[ 57.181693] ? aa_simple_write_to_buffer+0x54/0x130
[ 57.181697] ? policy_update+0x154/0x330
[ 57.181704] aa_replace_profiles+0x15a/0x1dd0
[ 57.181707] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5
[ 57.181710] ? __kvmalloc_node_noprof+0x44a/0x780
[ 57.181712] ? aa_loaddata_alloc+0x77/0x140
[ 57.181715] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5
[ 57.181717] ? _copy_from_user+0x2a/0x70
[ 57.181730] policy_update+0x17a/0x330
[ 57.181733] profile_replace+0x153/0x1a0
[ 57.181735] ? rw_verify_area+0x93/0x2d0
[ 57.181740] vfs_write+0x235/0xab0
[ 57.181745] ksys_write+0xb0/0x170
[ 57.181748] do_syscall_64+0x8e/0x660
[ 57.181762] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e
[ 57.181765] RIP: 0033:0x7f6192792eb2
Remove the MATCH_FLAG_DIFF_ENCODE condition to validate all DEFAULT_TABLE
entries unconditionally.
Fixes: 031dcc8f4e84 ("apparmor: dfa add support for state differential encoding")
Reported-by: Qualys Security Advisory <qsa@qualys.com>
Tested-by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
Reviewed-by: Georgia Garcia <georgia.garcia@canonical.com>
Reviewed-by: Cengiz Can <cengiz.can@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Massimiliano Pellizzer <massimiliano.pellizzer@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
security/apparmor/match.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/security/apparmor/match.c
+++ b/security/apparmor/match.c
@@ -160,9 +160,10 @@ static int verify_dfa(struct aa_dfa *dfa
if (state_count == 0)
goto out;
for (i = 0; i < state_count; i++) {
- if (!(BASE_TABLE(dfa)[i] & MATCH_FLAG_DIFF_ENCODE) &&
- (DEFAULT_TABLE(dfa)[i] >= state_count))
+ if (DEFAULT_TABLE(dfa)[i] >= state_count) {
+ pr_err("AppArmor DFA default state out of bounds");
goto out;
+ }
if (BASE_TABLE(dfa)[i] & MATCH_FLAGS_INVALID) {
pr_err("AppArmor DFA state with invalid match flags");
goto out;
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-12 20:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-12 20:03 [PATCH 6.19 00/13] 6.19.8-rc1 review Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-03-12 20:03 ` [PATCH 6.19 01/13] net/sched: act_gate: snapshot parameters with RCU on replace Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-03-12 20:03 ` [PATCH 6.19 02/13] net/sched: Only allow act_ct to bind to clsact/ingress qdiscs and shared blocks Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-03-12 20:03 ` [PATCH 6.19 03/13] apparmor: validate DFA start states are in bounds in unpack_pdb Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-03-12 20:03 ` [PATCH 6.19 04/13] apparmor: fix memory leak in verify_header Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-03-12 20:03 ` [PATCH 6.19 05/13] apparmor: replace recursive profile removal with iterative approach Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-03-12 20:03 ` [PATCH 6.19 06/13] apparmor: fix: limit the number of levels of policy namespaces Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-03-12 20:03 ` [PATCH 6.19 07/13] apparmor: fix side-effect bug in match_char() macro usage Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-03-12 20:03 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2026-03-12 20:03 ` [PATCH 6.19 09/13] apparmor: Fix double free of ns_name in aa_replace_profiles() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-03-12 20:03 ` [PATCH 6.19 10/13] apparmor: fix unprivileged local user can do privileged policy management Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-03-12 20:03 ` [PATCH 6.19 11/13] apparmor: fix differential encoding verification Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-03-12 20:03 ` [PATCH 6.19 12/13] apparmor: fix race on rawdata dereference Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-03-12 20:03 ` [PATCH 6.19 13/13] apparmor: fix race between freeing data and fs accessing it Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-03-12 20:41 ` [PATCH 6.19 00/13] 6.19.8-rc1 review Brett A C Sheffield
2026-03-13 2:45 ` Shuah Khan
2026-03-13 4:04 ` Ronald Warsow
2026-03-13 5:19 ` Ron Economos
2026-03-13 12:36 ` Mark Brown
2026-03-13 14:11 ` Takeshi Ogasawara
2026-03-13 16:18 ` Jon Hunter
2026-03-13 18:33 ` Florian Fainelli
2026-03-13 21:19 ` Miguel Ojeda
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