[PATCH 5.10 430/491] apparmor: validate DFA start states are in bounds in unpack_pdb

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-04-13T17:01:11Z

From: Massimiliano Pellizzer <massimiliano.pellizzer@canonical.com>

commit 9063d7e2615f4a7ab321de6b520e23d370e58816 upstream.

Backport for conflicts caused by
ad596ea74e74 ("apparmor: group dfa policydb unpacking")
- rearrange and consolidated the unpack.

b11e51dd7094 ("apparmor: test: make static symbols visible during kunit testing")
- rename function and make it visible to kunit tests

Start states are read from untrusted data and used as indexes into the
DFA state tables. The aa_dfa_next() function call in unpack_pdb() will
access dfa->tables[YYTD_ID_BASE][start], and if the start state exceeds
the number of states in the DFA, this results in an out-of-bound read.

==================================================================
BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in aa_dfa_next+0x2a1/0x360
Read of size 4 at addr ffff88811956fb90 by task su/1097
...

Reject policies with out-of-bounds start states during unpacking
to prevent the issue.

Fixes: ad5ff3db53c6 ("AppArmor: Add ability to load extended policy")
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/policy_unpack.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/security/apparmor/policy_unpack.c
+++ b/security/apparmor/policy_unpack.c
@@ -841,9 +841,18 @@ static struct aa_profile *unpack_profile
error = -EPROTO;
goto fail;
}
- if (!unpack_u32(e, &profile->policy.start[0], "start"))
+ if (!unpack_u32(e, &profile->policy.start[0], "start")) {
/* default start state */
profile->policy.start[0] = DFA_START;
+ } else {
+ size_t state_count = profile->policy.dfa->tables[YYTD_ID_BASE]->td_lolen;
+
+ if (profile->policy.start[0] >= state_count) {
+ info = "invalid dfa start state";
+ goto fail;
+ }
+ }
+
/* setup class index */
for (i = AA_CLASS_FILE; i <= AA_CLASS_LAST; i++) {
profile->policy.start[i] =
@@ -864,9 +873,17 @@ static struct aa_profile *unpack_profile
info = "failed to unpack profile file rules";
goto fail;
} else if (profile->file.dfa) {
- if (!unpack_u32(e, &profile->file.start, "dfa_start"))
+ if (!unpack_u32(e, &profile->file.start, "dfa_start")) {
/* default start state */
profile->file.start = DFA_START;
+ } else {
+ size_t state_count = profile->file.dfa->tables[YYTD_ID_BASE]->td_lolen;
+
+ if (profile->file.start >= state_count) {
+ info = "invalid dfa start state";
+ goto fail;
+ }
+ }
} else if (profile->policy.dfa &&
profile->policy.start[AA_CLASS_FILE]) {
profile->file.dfa = aa_get_dfa(profile->policy.dfa);