commit 4c023ba43c16396f0d199e2df1cfa59b88b62acc Author: Tom Yu Date: Fri Jun 21 17:58:25 2013 -0400 KDC null deref due to referrals [CVE-2013-1417] An authenticated remote client can cause a KDC to crash by making a valid TGS-REQ to a KDC serving a realm with a single-component name. The process_tgs_req() function dereferences a null pointer because an unusual failure condition causes a helper function to return success. While attempting to provide cross-realm referrals for host-based service principals, the find_referral_tgs() function could return a TGS principal for a zero-length realm name (indicating that the hostname in the service principal has no known realm associated with it). Subsequently, the find_alternate_tgs() function would attempt to construct a path to this empty-string realm, and return success along with a null pointer in its output parameter. This happens because krb5_walk_realm_tree() returns a list of length one when it attempts to construct a transit path between a single-component realm and the empty-string realm. This list causes a loop in find_alternate_tgs() to iterate over zero elements, resulting in the unexpected output of a null pointer, which process_tgs_req() proceeds to dereference because there is no error condition. Add an error condition to find_referral_tgs() when krb5_get_host_realm() returns an empty realm name. Also add an error condition to find_alternate_tgs() to handle the length-one output from krb5_walk_realm_tree(). The vulnerable configuration is not likely to arise in practice. (Realm names that have a single component are likely to be test realms.) Releases prior to krb5-1.11 are not vulnerable. Thanks to Sol Jerome for reporting this problem. CVSSv2: AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P/E:H/RL:O/RC:C (cherry picked from commit 3c7f1c21ffaaf6c90f1045f0f5440303c766acc0) ticket: 7668 version_fixed: 1.11.4 status: resolved diff --git a/src/kdc/do_tgs_req.c b/src/kdc/do_tgs_req.c index d41bc5d..745a48e 100644 --- a/src/kdc/do_tgs_req.c +++ b/src/kdc/do_tgs_req.c @@ -1057,6 +1057,8 @@ find_alternate_tgs(kdc_realm_t *kdc_active_realm, krb5_principal princ, goto cleanup; } cleanup: + if (retval == 0 && server_ptr == NULL) + retval = KRB5_KDB_NOENTRY; if (retval != 0) *status = "UNKNOWN_SERVER"; @@ -1149,7 +1151,7 @@ find_referral_tgs(kdc_realm_t *kdc_active_realm, krb5_kdc_req *request, goto cleanup; } /* Don't return a referral to the empty realm or the service realm. */ - if (realms == NULL || realms[0] == '\0' || + if (realms == NULL || realms[0] == NULL || *realms[0] == '\0' || data_eq_string(srealm, realms[0])) { retval = KRB5KDC_ERR_S_PRINCIPAL_UNKNOWN; goto cleanup;