From a39208bd7fb76c1b01c127b4c61f9bfd915bfe7c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Carlos O'Donell Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 11:44:12 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] CVE-2014-7817: wordexp fails to honour WRDE_NOCMD. The function wordexp() fails to properly handle the WRDE_NOCMD flag when processing arithmetic inputs in the form of "$((... ``))" where "..." can be anything valid. The backticks in the arithmetic epxression are evaluated by in a shell even if WRDE_NOCMD forbade command substitution. This allows an attacker to attempt to pass dangerous commands via constructs of the above form, and bypass the WRDE_NOCMD flag. This patch fixes this by checking for WRDE_NOCMD in exec_comm(), the only place that can execute a shell. All other checks for WRDE_NOCMD are superfluous and removed. We expand the testsuite and add 3 new regression tests of roughly the same form but with a couple of nested levels. On top of the 3 new tests we add fork validation to the WRDE_NOCMD testing. If any forks are detected during the execution of a wordexp() call with WRDE_NOCMD, the test is marked as failed. This is slightly heuristic since vfork might be used in the future, but it provides a higher level of assurance that no shells were executed as part of command substitution with WRDE_NOCMD in effect. In addition it doesn't require libpthread or libdl, instead we use the public implementation namespace function __register_atfork (already part of the public ABI for libpthread). Tested on x86_64 with no regressions. --- ChangeLog | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++ NEWS | 8 +++++++- posix/wordexp-test.c | 44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ posix/wordexp.c | 16 ++++------------ 4 files changed, 77 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) Index: git/ChangeLog =================================================================== --- git.orig/ChangeLog +++ git/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,24 @@ +2014-11-19 Carlos O'Donell + Florian Weimer + Joseph Myers + Adam Conrad + Andreas Schwab + Brooks + + [BZ #17625] + * wordexp-test.c (__dso_handle): Add prototype. + (__register_atfork): Likewise. + (__app_register_atfork): New function. + (registered_forks): New global. + (register_fork): New function. + (test_case): Add 3 new tests for WRDE_CMDSUB. + (main): Call __app_register_atfork. + (testit): If WRDE_NOCMD set registered_forks to zero, run test, and if + fork count is non-zero fail the test. + * posix/wordexp.c (exec_comm): Return WRDE_CMDSUB if WRDE_NOCMD flag + is set. + (parse_dollars): Remove check for WRDE_NOCMD. + 2014-09-07 Allan McRae words); + if (tc->flags & WRDE_NOCMD) + registered_forks = 0; + if (tc->flags & WRDE_APPEND) { /* initial wordexp() call, to be appended to */ @@ -378,6 +415,13 @@ testit (struct test_case_struct *tc) } retval = wordexp (tc->words, &we, tc->flags); + if ((tc->flags & WRDE_NOCMD) + && (registered_forks > 0)) + { + printf ("FAILED fork called for WRDE_NOCMD\n"); + return 1; + } + if (tc->flags & WRDE_DOOFFS) start_offs = sav_we.we_offs; Index: git/posix/wordexp.c =================================================================== --- git.orig/posix/wordexp.c +++ git/posix/wordexp.c @@ -893,6 +893,10 @@ exec_comm (char *comm, char **word, size pid_t pid; int noexec = 0; + /* Do nothing if command substitution should not succeed. */ + if (flags & WRDE_NOCMD) + return WRDE_CMDSUB; + /* Don't fork() unless necessary */ if (!comm || !*comm) return 0; @@ -2082,9 +2086,6 @@ parse_dollars (char **word, size_t *word } } - if (flags & WRDE_NOCMD) - return WRDE_CMDSUB; - (*offset) += 2; return parse_comm (word, word_length, max_length, words, offset, flags, quoted? NULL : pwordexp, ifs, ifs_white); @@ -2196,9 +2197,6 @@ parse_dquote (char **word, size_t *word_ break; case '`': - if (flags & WRDE_NOCMD) - return WRDE_CMDSUB; - ++(*offset); error = parse_backtick (word, word_length, max_length, words, offset, flags, NULL, NULL, NULL); @@ -2357,12 +2355,6 @@ wordexp (const char *words, wordexp_t *p break; case '`': - if (flags & WRDE_NOCMD) - { - error = WRDE_CMDSUB; - goto do_error; - } - ++words_offset; error = parse_backtick (&word, &word_length, &max_length, words, &words_offset, flags, pwordexp, ifs,