[COMMITTED,2.19] CVE-2014-8121: Do not close NSS files database during iteration [BZ #18007]

Message ID 1445253738-6087-1-git-send-email-aurelien@aurel32.net
State Committed
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Aurelien Jarno Oct. 19, 2015, 11:22 a.m. UTC
  From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>

Robin Hack discovered Samba would enter an infinite loop processing
certain quota-related requests.  We eventually tracked this down to a
glibc issue.

Running a (simplified) test case under strace shows that /etc/passwd
is continuously opened and closed:

…
open("/etc/passwd", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
lseek(3, 0, SEEK_CUR)                   = 0
read(3, "root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash\n"..., 4096) = 2717
lseek(3, 2717, SEEK_SET)                = 2717
close(3)                                = 0
open("/etc/passwd", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
lseek(3, 0, SEEK_CUR)                   = 0
lseek(3, 0, SEEK_SET)                   = 0
read(3, "root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash\n"..., 4096) = 2717
lseek(3, 2717, SEEK_SET)                = 2717
close(3)                                = 0
open("/etc/passwd", O_RDONLY|O_CLOEXEC) = 3
lseek(3, 0, SEEK_CUR)                   = 0
…

The lookup function implementation in
nss/nss_files/files-XXX.c:DB_LOOKUP has code to prevent that.  It is
supposed skip closing the input file if it was already open.

  /* Reset file pointer to beginning or open file.  */			      \
  status = internal_setent (keep_stream);				      \
									      \
  if (status == NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS)					      \
    {									      \
      /* Tell getent function that we have repositioned the file pointer.  */ \
      last_use = getby;							      \
									      \
      while ((status = internal_getent (result, buffer, buflen, errnop	      \
					H_ERRNO_ARG EXTRA_ARGS_VALUE))	      \
	     == NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS)					      \
	{ break_if_match }						      \
									      \
      if (! keep_stream)						      \
	internal_endent ();						      \
    }									      \

keep_stream is initialized from the stayopen flag in internal_setent.
internal_setent is called from the set*ent implementation as:

  status = internal_setent (stayopen);

However, for non-host database, this flag is always 0, per the
STAYOPEN magic in nss/getXXent_r.c.

Thus, the fix is this:

-  status = internal_setent (stayopen);
+  status = internal_setent (1);

This is not a behavioral change even for the hosts database (where the
application can specify the stayopen flag) because with a call to
sethostent(0), the file handle is still not closed in the
implementation of gethostent.

(cherry picked from commit 03d2730b44cc2236318fd978afa2651753666c55)

Conflicts:
	ChangeLog
	NEWS
---
 ChangeLog                 |   8 ++++
 NEWS                      |   7 ++-
 nss/Makefile              |   2 +-
 nss/nss_files/files-XXX.c |   2 +-
 nss/tst-nss-getpwent.c    | 118 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 5 files changed, 134 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 nss/tst-nss-getpwent.c
  

Patch

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 8d621b2..a7207b1 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@ 
+2015-04-29  Florian Weimer  <fweimer@redhat.com>
+
+	[BZ #18007]
+	* nss/nss_files/files-XXX.c (CONCAT): Always enable stayopen.
+	(CVE-2014-8121)
+	* nss/tst-nss-getpwent.c: New file.
+	* nss/Makefile (tests): Add new test.
+
 2015-02-22  Paul Pluzhnikov  <ppluzhnikov@google.com>
 
 	[BZ #17269]
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 9e7316b..e00543f 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@  Version 2.19.1
 
   15946, 16545, 16574, 16623, 16657, 16695, 16743, 16878, 16882, 16885,
   16916, 16932, 16943, 16958, 17048, 17069, 17079, 17137, 17153, 17213,
-  17263, 17269, 17325, 17555, 18032, 18287.
+  17263, 17269, 17325, 17555, 18007, 18032, 18287.
 
 * A buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions performing DNS
   requests has been fixed.  If the NSS functions were called with a
@@ -57,6 +57,11 @@  Version 2.19.1
   IBM937, IBM939, IBM1364 could result in an out-of-bounds array read,
   resulting a denial-of-service security vulnerability in applications which
   use functions related to iconv. (CVE-2014-6040)
+
+* CVE-2014-8121 The NSS files backend would reset the file pointer used by
+  the get*ent functions if any of the query functions for the same database
+  are used during the iteration, causing a denial-of-service condition in
+  some applications.
 
 Version 2.19
 
diff --git a/nss/Makefile b/nss/Makefile
index c8880c0..3f9d2d0 100644
--- a/nss/Makefile
+++ b/nss/Makefile
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@  install-bin             := getent makedb
 makedb-modules = xmalloc hash-string
 extra-objs		+= $(makedb-modules:=.o)
 
-tests			= test-netdb tst-nss-test1 test-digits-dots
+tests			= test-netdb tst-nss-test1 test-digits-dots tst-nss-getpwent
 xtests			= bug-erange
 
 include ../Makeconfig
diff --git a/nss/nss_files/files-XXX.c b/nss/nss_files/files-XXX.c
index d4cd95e..3b90f7e 100644
--- a/nss/nss_files/files-XXX.c
+++ b/nss/nss_files/files-XXX.c
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@  CONCAT(_nss_files_set,ENTNAME) (int stayopen)
 
   __libc_lock_lock (lock);
 
-  status = internal_setent (stayopen);
+  status = internal_setent (1);
 
   if (status == NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS && fgetpos (stream, &position) < 0)
     {
diff --git a/nss/tst-nss-getpwent.c b/nss/tst-nss-getpwent.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f2e8abc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nss/tst-nss-getpwent.c
@@ -0,0 +1,118 @@ 
+/* Copyright (C) 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+   This file is part of the GNU C Library.
+
+   The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+   modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
+   License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+   version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+
+   The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
+   Lesser General Public License for more details.
+
+   You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
+   License along with the GNU C Library; if not, see
+   <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
+
+#include <pwd.h>
+#include <stdbool.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <string.h>
+
+int
+do_test (void)
+{
+  /* Count the number of entries in the password database, and fetch
+     data from the first and last entries.  */
+  size_t count = 0;
+  struct passwd * pw;
+  char *first_name = NULL;
+  uid_t first_uid = 0;
+  char *last_name = NULL;
+  uid_t last_uid = 0;
+  setpwent ();
+  while ((pw  = getpwent ()) != NULL)
+    {
+      if (first_name == NULL)
+	{
+	  first_name = strdup (pw->pw_name);
+	  if (first_name == NULL)
+	    {
+	      printf ("strdup: %m\n");
+	      return 1;
+	    }
+	  first_uid = pw->pw_uid;
+	}
+
+      free (last_name);
+      last_name = strdup (pw->pw_name);
+      if (last_name == NULL)
+	{
+	  printf ("strdup: %m\n");
+	  return 1;
+	}
+      last_uid = pw->pw_uid;
+      ++count;
+    }
+  endpwent ();
+
+  if (count == 0)
+    {
+      printf ("No entries in the password database.\n");
+      return 0;
+    }
+
+  /* Try again, this time interleaving with name-based and UID-based
+     lookup operations.  The counts do not match if the interleaved
+     lookups affected the enumeration.  */
+  size_t new_count = 0;
+  setpwent ();
+  while ((pw  = getpwent ()) != NULL)
+    {
+      if (new_count == count)
+	{
+	  printf ("Additional entry in the password database.\n");
+	  return 1;
+	}
+      ++new_count;
+      struct passwd *pw2 = getpwnam (first_name);
+      if (pw2 == NULL)
+	{
+	  printf ("getpwnam (%s) failed: %m\n", first_name);
+	  return 1;
+	}
+      pw2 = getpwnam (last_name);
+      if (pw2 == NULL)
+	{
+	  printf ("getpwnam (%s) failed: %m\n", last_name);
+	  return 1;
+	}
+      pw2 = getpwuid (first_uid);
+      if (pw2 == NULL)
+	{
+	  printf ("getpwuid (%llu) failed: %m\n",
+		  (unsigned long long) first_uid);
+	  return 1;
+	}
+      pw2 = getpwuid (last_uid);
+      if (pw2 == NULL)
+	{
+	  printf ("getpwuid (%llu) failed: %m\n",
+		  (unsigned long long) last_uid);
+	  return 1;
+	}
+    }
+  endpwent ();
+  if (new_count < count)
+    {
+      printf ("Missing entry in the password database.\n");
+      return 1;
+    }
+
+  return 0;
+}
+
+#define TEST_FUNCTION do_test ()
+#include "../test-skeleton.c"