From: Daniel Axtens <d...@axtens.net>
A malicious tftp server can cause UAFs and a double free.
An attempt to read from a network file is handled by grub_net_fs_read(). If
the read is at an offset other than the current offset, grub_net_seek_real()
is invoked.
In grub_net_seek_real(), if a backwards seek cannot be satisfied from the
currently received packets, and the underlying transport does not provide
a seek method, then grub_net_seek_real() will close and reopen the network
protocol layer.
For tftp, the ->close() call goes to tftp_close() and frees the tftp_data_t
file->data. The file->data pointer is not nulled out after the free.
If the ->open() call fails, the file->data will not be reallocated and will
continue point to a freed memory block. This could happen from a server
refusing to send the requisite ack to the new tftp request, for example.
The seek and the read will then fail, but the grub_file continues to exist:
the failed seek does not necessarily cause the entire file to be thrown
away (e.g. where the file is checked to see if it is gzipped/lzio/xz/etc.,
a read failure is interpreted as a decompressor passing on the file, not as
an invalidation of the entire grub_file_t structure).
This means subsequent attempts to read or seek the file will use the old
file->data after free. Eventually, the file will be close()d again and
file->data will be freed again.
Mark a net_fs file that doesn't reopen as broken. Do not permit read() or
close() on a broken file (seek is not exposed directly to the file API -
it is only called as part of read, so this blocks seeks as well).
As an additional defence, null out the ->data pointer if tftp_open() fails.
That would have lead to a simple null pointer dereference rather than
a mess of UAFs.
This may affect other protocols, I haven't checked.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens <d...@axtens.net>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.ki...@oracle.com>
---
grub-core/net/net.c | 11 +++++++++--
grub-core/net/tftp.c | 1 +
include/grub/net.h | 1 +
3 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/grub-core/net/net.c b/grub-core/net/net.c
index 2b6771523..9f09f8e48 100644
--- a/grub-core/net/net.c
+++ b/grub-core/net/net.c
@@ -1521,7 +1521,8 @@ grub_net_fs_close (grub_file_t file)
grub_netbuff_free (file->device->net->packs.first->nb);
grub_net_remove_packet (file->device->net->packs.first);
}
- file->device->net->protocol->close (file);
+ if (!file->device->net->broken)
+ file->device->net->protocol->close (file);
grub_free (file->device->net->name);
return GRUB_ERR_NONE;
}
@@ -1744,7 +1745,10 @@ grub_net_seek_real (struct grub_file *file, grub_off_t
offset)
file->device->net->stall = 0;
err = file->device->net->protocol->open (file, file->device->net->name);
if (err)
- return err;
+ {
+ file->device->net->broken = 1;
+ return err;
+ }
grub_net_fs_read_real (file, NULL, offset);
return grub_errno;
}
@@ -1753,6 +1757,9 @@ grub_net_seek_real (struct grub_file *file, grub_off_t
offset)
static grub_ssize_t
grub_net_fs_read (grub_file_t file, char *buf, grub_size_t len)
{
+ if (file->device->net->broken)
+ return -1;
+
if (file->offset != file->device->net->offset)
{
grub_err_t err;
diff --git a/grub-core/net/tftp.c b/grub-core/net/tftp.c
index ebbafe7a1..ee305e18a 100644
--- a/grub-core/net/tftp.c
+++ b/grub-core/net/tftp.c
@@ -400,6 +400,7 @@ tftp_open (struct grub_file *file, const char *filename)
{
grub_net_udp_close (data->sock);
grub_free (data);
+ file->data = NULL;
return grub_errno;
}
diff --git a/include/grub/net.h b/include/grub/net.h
index db21e792f..a64a04cc8 100644
--- a/include/grub/net.h
+++ b/include/grub/net.h
@@ -276,6 +276,7 @@ typedef struct grub_net
grub_fs_t fs;
int eof;
int stall;
+ int broken;
} *grub_net_t;
extern grub_net_t (*EXPORT_VAR (grub_net_open)) (const char *name);
--
2.11.0
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