CVE-2017-16997: Incorrect handling of RPATH or RUNPATH containing $ORIGIN
for AT_SECURE or SUID binaries could be used to load libraries from the
current directory.
Depends on f6110a8fee2ca36f8e2d2abecf3cba9fa7b8ea7d which is already
backported by glibc-rh1452721-1.patch.
commit 3e3c904daef69b8bf7d5cc07f793c9f07c3553ef
Author: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
Date: Sat Dec 30 10:54:23 2017 +0100
elf: Check for empty tokens before dynamic string token expansion [BZ #22625]
The fillin_rpath function in elf/dl-load.c loops over each RPATH or
RUNPATH tokens and interprets empty tokens as the current directory
("./"). In practice the check for empty token is done *after* the
dynamic string token expansion. The expansion process can return an
empty string for the $ORIGIN token if __libc_enable_secure is set
or if the path of the binary can not be determined (/proc not mounted).
Fix that by moving the check for empty tokens before the dynamic string
token expansion. In addition, check for NULL pointer or empty strings
return by expand_dynamic_string_token.
The above changes highlighted a bug in decompose_rpath, an empty array
is represented by the first element being NULL at the fillin_rpath
level, but by using a -1 pointer in decompose_rpath and other functions.
Changelog:
[BZ #22625]
* elf/dl-load.c (fillin_rpath): Check for empty tokens before dynamic
string token expansion. Check for NULL pointer or empty string possibly
returned by expand_dynamic_string_token.
(decompose_rpath): Check for empty path after dynamic string
token expansion.
Index: glibc-2.17-c758a686/elf/dl-load.c
===================================================================
--- glibc-2.17-c758a686.orig/elf/dl-load.c
+++ glibc-2.17-c758a686/elf/dl-load.c
@@ -447,31 +447,39 @@ fillin_rpath (char *rpath, struct r_sear
{
char *cp;
size_t nelems = 0;
- char *to_free;
while ((cp = __strsep (&rpath, sep)) != NULL)
{
struct r_search_path_elem *dirp;
+ char *to_free = NULL;
+ size_t len = 0;
- to_free = cp = expand_dynamic_string_token (l, cp);
-
- size_t len = strlen (cp);
-
- /* `strsep' can pass an empty string. This has to be
- interpreted as `use the current directory'. */
- if (len == 0)
+ /* `strsep' can pass an empty string. */
+ if (*cp != '\0')
{
- static const char curwd[] = "./";
- cp = (char *) curwd;
- }
+ to_free = cp = expand_dynamic_string_token (l, cp);
+ /* expand_dynamic_string_token can return NULL in case of empty
+ path or memory allocation failure. */
+ if (cp == NULL)
+ continue;
+
+ /* Compute the length after dynamic string token expansion and
+ ignore empty paths. */
+ len = strlen (cp);
+ if (len == 0)
+ {
+ free (to_free);
+ continue;
+ }
- /* Remove trailing slashes (except for "/"). */
- while (len > 1 && cp[len - 1] == '/')
- --len;
-
- /* Now add one if there is none so far. */
- if (len > 0 && cp[len - 1] != '/')
- cp[len++] = '/';
+ /* Remove trailing slashes (except for "/"). */
+ while (len > 1 && cp[len - 1] == '/')
+ --len;
+
+ /* Now add one if there is none so far. */
+ if (len > 0 && cp[len - 1] != '/')
+ cp[len++] = '/';
+ }
/* See if this directory is already known. */
for (dirp = GL(dl_all_dirs); dirp != NULL; dirp = dirp->next)
@@ -626,6 +634,14 @@ decompose_rpath (struct r_search_path_st
necessary. */
free (copy);
+ /* There is no path after expansion. */
+ if (result[0] == NULL)
+ {
+ free (result);
+ sps->dirs = (struct r_search_path_elem **) -1;
+ return false;
+ }
+
sps->dirs = result;
/* The caller will change this value if we haven't used a real malloc. */
sps->malloced = 1;