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>,
John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
Subject: [PATCH 6.18 11/13] apparmor: fix differential encoding verification
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 21:03:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260312200326.657367121@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: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
commit 39440b137546a3aa383cfdabc605fb73811b6093 upstream.
Differential encoding allows loops to be created if it is abused. To
prevent this the unpack should verify that a diff-encode chain
terminates.
Unfortunately the differential encode verification had two bugs.
1. it conflated states that had gone through check and already been
marked, with states that were currently being checked and marked.
This means that loops in the current chain being verified are treated
as a chain that has already been verified.
2. the order bailout on already checked states compared current chain
check iterators j,k instead of using the outer loop iterator i.
Meaning a step backwards in states in the current chain verification
was being mistaken for moving to an already verified state.
Move to a double mark scheme where already verified states get a
different mark, than the current chain being kept. This enables us
to also drop the backwards verification check that was the cause of
the second error as any already verified state is already marked.
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: John Johansen <john.johansen@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
security/apparmor/include/match.h | 1 +
security/apparmor/match.c | 23 +++++++++++++++++++----
2 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/security/apparmor/include/match.h
+++ b/security/apparmor/include/match.h
@@ -185,6 +185,7 @@ static inline void aa_put_dfa(struct aa_
#define MATCH_FLAG_DIFF_ENCODE 0x80000000
#define MARK_DIFF_ENCODE 0x40000000
#define MATCH_FLAG_OOB_TRANSITION 0x20000000
+#define MARK_DIFF_ENCODE_VERIFIED 0x10000000
#define MATCH_FLAGS_MASK 0xff000000
#define MATCH_FLAGS_VALID (MATCH_FLAG_DIFF_ENCODE | MATCH_FLAG_OOB_TRANSITION)
#define MATCH_FLAGS_INVALID (MATCH_FLAGS_MASK & ~MATCH_FLAGS_VALID)
--- a/security/apparmor/match.c
+++ b/security/apparmor/match.c
@@ -202,16 +202,31 @@ static int verify_dfa(struct aa_dfa *dfa
size_t j, k;
for (j = i;
- (BASE_TABLE(dfa)[j] & MATCH_FLAG_DIFF_ENCODE) &&
- !(BASE_TABLE(dfa)[j] & MARK_DIFF_ENCODE);
+ ((BASE_TABLE(dfa)[j] & MATCH_FLAG_DIFF_ENCODE) &&
+ !(BASE_TABLE(dfa)[j] & MARK_DIFF_ENCODE_VERIFIED));
j = k) {
+ if (BASE_TABLE(dfa)[j] & MARK_DIFF_ENCODE)
+ /* loop in current chain */
+ goto out;
k = DEFAULT_TABLE(dfa)[j];
if (j == k)
+ /* self loop */
goto out;
- if (k < j)
- break; /* already verified */
BASE_TABLE(dfa)[j] |= MARK_DIFF_ENCODE;
}
+ /* move mark to verified */
+ for (j = i;
+ (BASE_TABLE(dfa)[j] & MATCH_FLAG_DIFF_ENCODE);
+ j = k) {
+ k = DEFAULT_TABLE(dfa)[j];
+ if (j < i)
+ /* jumps to state/chain that has been
+ * verified
+ */
+ break;
+ BASE_TABLE(dfa)[j] &= ~MARK_DIFF_ENCODE;
+ BASE_TABLE(dfa)[j] |= MARK_DIFF_ENCODE_VERIFIED;
+ }
}
error = 0;
next prev 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 ` [PATCH 6.18 08/13] apparmor: fix missing bounds check on DEFAULT table in verify_dfa() Greg Kroah-Hartman
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 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
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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