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xen/xenbus: Reject replies with payload > XENSTORE_PAYLOAD_MAX. 

Haogang Chen found out that:

 There is a potential integer overflow in process_msg() that could result
 in cross-domain attack.

 	body = kmalloc(msg->hdr.len + 1, GFP_NOIO | __GFP_HIGH);

 When a malicious guest passes 0xffffffff in msg->hdr.len, the subsequent
 call to xb_read() would write to a zero-length buffer.

 The other end of this connection is always the xenstore backend daemon
 so there is no guest (malicious or otherwise) which can do this. The
 xenstore daemon is a trusted component in the system.

 However this seem like a reasonable robustness improvement so we should
 have it.

And Ian when read the API docs found that:
        The payload length (len field of the header) is limited to 4096
        (XENSTORE_PAYLOAD_MAX) in both directions.  If a client exceeds the
        limit, its xenstored connection will be immediately killed by
        xenstored, which is usually catastrophic from the client's point of
        view.  Clients (particularly domains, which cannot just reconnect)
        should avoid this.

so this patch checks against that instead.

This also avoids a potential integer overflow pointed out by Haogang Chen.

Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Haogang Chen <haogangchen@gmail.com>
CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>
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Ian Campbell 2012-01-04 09:34:49 +00:00 committed by Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
parent 73db144b58
commit 9e7860cee1
2 changed files with 9 additions and 0 deletions
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drivers/xen/xenbus/xenbus_xs.c
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@ -810,6 +810,12 @@ static int process_msg(void)
goto out;
}
if (msg->hdr.len > XENSTORE_PAYLOAD_MAX) {
kfree(msg);
err = -EINVAL;
goto out;
}
body = kmalloc(msg->hdr.len + 1, GFP_NOIO | __GFP_HIGH);
if (body == NULL) {
kfree(msg);

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include/xen/interface/io/xs_wire.h
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@ -88,4 +88,7 @@ struct xenstore_domain_interface {
XENSTORE_RING_IDX rsp_cons, rsp_prod;
};
/* Violating this is very bad. See docs/misc/xenstore.txt. */
#define XENSTORE_PAYLOAD_MAX 4096
#endif /* _XS_WIRE_H */