Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2001 14:57:58 +1000
From: NetBSD Security Officer <security-officer@netbsd.org.>
To: netbsd-announce@netbsd.org
Subject: NetBSD Security Advisory 2000-011: Insufficient msg_controllen checking for sendmsg(2)
Cc: tech-security@netbsd.org, current-users@netbsd.org,
bugtraq@securityfocus.com, cert@cert.org, auscert@auscert.org.au
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NetBSD Security Advisory 2000-011
Topic: Insufficient msg_controllen checking for sendmsg(2)
Version: All releases of NetBSD from 1.3 to 1.5, and -current
Severity: Any local user can panic the system
Fixed: NetBSD-current: July 1, 2001
NetBSD-1.5 branch: July 2, 2001 (1.5.1 includes the fix)
NetBSD-1.4 branch: July 19, 2001
Abstract
========
Due to insufficient length checking in the kernel, sendmsg(2) can be
used by a local user to cause a kernel trap, or an 'out of space in
kmem_map' panic.
As of the release date of this advisory, NetBSD releases from 1.3
up to any later release, are vulnerable.
Technical Details
=================
sendmsg(2) can be used to send data through a socket, optionally
specifying destination address and control information.
sendmsg(2) accepts a pointer to struct msghdr, which holds further
information for the call. The pointer to control information is passed
via msg_control, msg_controllen helds the length of the control
information. This is used to read the control information into kernel
space and put it in an mbuf for further processing. However, the kernel
attempts to allocate mbuf storage as specified in msg_controllen without
further checks. This behaviour can be abused to cause a kernel page
fault trap if the value is higher than INT_MAX, or to cause an 'out of
space in kmem_map' panic for lower values. The exact size to cause the
latter is port dependant, though INT_MAX is commonly enough to trigger
the panic.
Solutions and Workarounds
All NetBSD official releases from 1.3 are vulnerable.
Kernel sources must be updated and a new kernel built and installed.
The instructions for updating your kernel sources depend upon which
particular NetBSD release you are running.
* NetBSD-current:
Systems running NetBSD-current dated from before 2001-07-01
should be upgraded to NetBSD-current dated 2001-07-01 or later.
The following source directories need to be updated from
the netbsd-current CVS branch (aka HEAD):
src/sys/kern
Alternatively, apply the following patch (with potential offset
differences):
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/patches/SA2001-011-sendmsg-current.patch
* NetBSD 1.5:
Systems running NetBSD 1.5 dated from before 2001-07-02 should be
upgraded from NetBSD 1.5 sources dated 2001-07-02 or later.
The following source directory needs to be updated from the
netbsd-1-5 CVS branch:
src/sys/kern
Alternatively, apply the following patch (with potential offset
differences):
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/patches/SA2001-011-sendmsg-1.3-1.5.patch
NetBSD 1.5.1 is not vulnerable.
* NetBSD 1.4, 1.4.1, 1.4.2, 1.4.3:
Systems running NetBSD 1.4 dated from before 2001-07-19 should be
upgraded from NetBSD 1.4 sources dated 2001-07-19 or later.
The following source directory needs to be updated from the
netbsd-1-4 CVS branch:
src/sys/kern
Alternatively, apply the following patch (with potential offset
differences):
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/patches/SA2001-011-sendmsg-1.3-1.5.patch
* NetBSD 1.3, 1.3.1, 1.3.2, 1.3.3:
Apply the following patch (with potential offset differences):
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/patches/SA2001-011-sendmsg-1.3-1.5.patch
Once the kernel sources have been updated, rebuild the kernel,
install it, and reboot. For more information on how to do this,
see:
http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/kernel/#building_a_kernel
Thanks To
=========
Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org.> for finding the problem, and
supplying a test program showing the problem.
Matt Thomas <matt@NetBSD.org.> for a fix.
Revision History
================
2001-07-20 Initial revision
More Information
================
An up-to-date PGP signed copy of this release will be maintained at
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2001-011.txt.asc
Information about NetBSD and NetBSD security can be found at
http://www.NetBSD.ORG/ and http://www.NetBSD.ORG/Security/.
Copyright 2000, The NetBSD Foundation, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
$NetBSD: NetBSD-SA2001-011.txt,v 1.7 2001/07/20 01:16:54 lukem Exp $
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