A DN string with lots of trailing space can cause ldb_dn_explode() to
put a zero byte in the wrong place in the heap.
When a DN string has a value represented with trailing spaces,
like this
"CN=foo ,DC=bar"
the whitespace is supposed to be ignored. We keep track of this in the
`t` pointer, which is NULL when we are not walking through trailing
spaces, and points to the first space when we are. We are walking with
the `p` pointer, writing the value to `d`, and keeping the length in
`l`.
"CN=foo ,DC= " ==> "foo "
^ ^ ^
t p d
--l---
The value is finished when we encounter a comma or the end of the
string. If `t` is not NULL at that point, we assume there are trailing
spaces and wind `d and `l` back by the correct amount. Then we switch
to expecting an attribute name (e.g. "CN"), until we get to an "=",
which puts us back into looking for a value.
Unfortunately, we forget to immediately tell `t` that we'd finished
the last value, we can end up like this:
"CN=foo ,DC= " ==> ""
^ ^ ^
t p d
l=0
where `p` is pointing to a new value that contains only spaces, while
`t` is still referring to the old value. `p` notices the value ends,
and we subtract `p - t` from `d`:
"CN=foo ,DC= " ==> ? ""
^ ^ ^
t p d
l ~= SIZE_MAX - 8
At that point `d` wants to terminate its string with a '\0', but
instead it terminates someone else's byte. This does not crash if the
number of trailing spaces is small, as `d` will point into a previous
value (a copy of "foo" in this example). Corrupting that value will
ultimately not matter, as we will soon try to allocate a buffer `l`
long, which will be greater than the available memory and the whole
operation will fail properly.
However, with more spaces, `d` will point into memory before the
beginning of the allocated buffer, with the exact offset depending on
the length of the earlier attributes and the number of spaces.
What about a longer DN with more attributes? For example,
"CN=foo ,DC= ,DC=example,DC=com" -- since `d` has moved out of
bounds, won't we continue to use it and write more DN values into
mystery memory? Fortunately not, because the aforementioned allocation
of `l` bytes must happen first, and `l` is now huge. The allocation
happens in a talloc_memdup(), which is by default restricted to
allocating 256MB.
So this allows a person who controls a string parsed by ldb_dn_explode
to corrupt heap memory by placing a single zero byte at a chosen
offset before the allocated buffer.
An LDAP bind request can send a string DN as a username. This DN is
necessarily parsed before the password is checked, so an attacker does
not need proper credentials. The attacker can easily cause a denial of
service and we cannot rule out more subtle attacks.
The immediate solution is to reset `t` to NULL when a comma is
encountered, indicating that we are no longer looking at trailing
whitespace.
Found with the help of Honggfuzz.
BUG: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14595
Signed-off-by: Douglas Bagnall <douglas.bagnall@catalyst.net.nz>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Bartlett <abartlet@samba.org>
/* trim back */
d -= (p - t);
l -= (p - t);
+ t = NULL;
}
in_attr = true;
samba.tests.segfault.samba.tests.segfault.SegfaultTests.test_net_replicate_init__3
-samba.tests.segfault.samba.tests.segfault.SegfaultTests.test_ldb_dn_explode_crash
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