[PATCH v3] elf: Check for empty tokens before dynamic string token expansion [BZ #22625]

[Dmitry V. Levin]

On Wed, Dec 20, 2017 at 09:23:59PM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> 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.
> ---
>  ChangeLog     | 10 ++++++++++
>  NEWS          |  4 ++++
>  elf/dl-load.c | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
>  3 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
> index 35d1d102f6..0ed4d0ab15 100644
> --- a/ChangeLog
> +++ b/ChangeLog
> @@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
> +2017-12-20  Aurelien Jarno  <aurelien@aurel32.net>
> +	    Dmitry V. Levin  <ldv@altlinux.org>
> +
> +	[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.
> +
>  2017-12-20  Adhemerval Zanella  <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
>  
>  	* nptl/Makefile (libpthread-routines): Add pthread_join_common.
> diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
> index a43ff26e83..0d43e93a17 100644
> --- a/NEWS
> +++ b/NEWS
> @@ -149,6 +149,10 @@ Security related changes:
>    CVE-2017-1000366 has been applied, but it is mentioned here only because
>    of the CVE assignment.)  Reported by Qualys.
>  
> +  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.
> +
>  The following bugs are resolved with this release:
>  
>    [The release manager will add the list generated by
> diff --git a/elf/dl-load.c b/elf/dl-load.c
> index 2964464158..955eb49ecb 100644
> --- a/elf/dl-load.c
> +++ b/elf/dl-load.c
> @@ -414,22 +414,31 @@ fillin_rpath (char *rpath, struct r_search_path_elem **result, const char *sep,
>  {
>    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, 1);
> +      /* `strsep' can pass an empty string.  */
> +      if (*cp != '\0')
> +	{
> +	  to_free = cp = expand_dynamic_string_token (l, cp, 1);
>  
> -      size_t len = strlen (cp);
> +	  /* expand_dynamic_string_token can return NULL in case of empty
> +	     path or memory allocation failure.  */
> +	  if (cp == NULL)
> +	    continue;
>  
> -      /* `strsep' can pass an empty string.  This has to be
> -	 interpreted as `use the current directory'. */
> -      if (len == 0)
> -	{
> -	  static const char curwd[] = "./";
> -	  cp = (char *) curwd;
> +         /* 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 "/").  */

The longer I look at this hunk of fillin_rpath, the more I think
that moving "Remove trailing slashes" and "Now add one" code inside
"if (*cp != '\0')" statement will make fillin_rpath a bit more readable.


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