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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 6.18 08/13] apparmor: fix missing bounds check on DEFAULT table in verify_dfa()
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 21:03:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260312200326.550453897@linuxfoundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260312200326.246396673@linuxfoundation.org>

6.18-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;



  parent reply	other threads:[~2026-03-12 20:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-12 20:03 [PATCH 6.18 00/13] 6.18.18-rc1 review Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-03-12 20:03 ` [PATCH 6.18 01/13] net/sched: act_gate: snapshot parameters with RCU on replace Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-03-12 20:03 ` [PATCH 6.18 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 6.18 03/13] apparmor: validate DFA start states are in bounds in unpack_pdb Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-03-12 20:03 ` [PATCH 6.18 04/13] apparmor: fix memory leak in verify_header Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-03-12 20:03 ` [PATCH 6.18 05/13] apparmor: replace recursive profile removal with iterative approach Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-03-12 20:03 ` [PATCH 6.18 06/13] apparmor: fix: limit the number of levels of policy namespaces Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-03-12 20:03 ` [PATCH 6.18 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 6.18 09/13] apparmor: Fix double free of ns_name in aa_replace_profiles() Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-03-12 20:03 ` [PATCH 6.18 10/13] apparmor: fix unprivileged local user can do privileged policy management Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-03-12 20:03 ` [PATCH 6.18 11/13] apparmor: fix differential encoding verification Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-03-12 20:03 ` [PATCH 6.18 12/13] apparmor: fix race on rawdata dereference Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-03-12 20:03 ` [PATCH 6.18 13/13] apparmor: fix race between freeing data and fs accessing it Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-03-12 20:41 ` [PATCH 6.18 00/13] 6.18.18-rc1 review Brett A C Sheffield
2026-03-13  3:23 ` Shuah Khan
2026-03-13  5:24 ` Ron Economos
2026-03-13 10:56 ` Barry K. Nathan
2026-03-13 16:16 ` Jon Hunter
2026-03-13 16:40 ` Mark Brown
2026-03-13 18:03 ` Florian Fainelli
2026-03-13 21:15 ` Miguel Ojeda

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