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authorHeiko Schlittermann (HS12-RIPE) <hs@schlittermann.de>2020-11-25 22:58:58 +0100
committerHeiko Schlittermann (HS12-RIPE) <hs@schlittermann.de>2021-04-28 00:40:31 +0200
commit8b39dd074e3ec70cbda70a52cef5b71ecbf69499 (patch)
tree927fa9778d0862b4f6059fe0feb059beae110e09
parentdb96ca55137d7684a9afdf9d118feed9116906b7 (diff)
downloadexim4-8b39dd074e3ec70cbda70a52cef5b71ecbf69499.tar.gz
SECURITY: Avoid decrement of dkim_collect_input if already at 0
Credits: Qualys 5/ receive_msg() calls dkim_exim_verify_finish(), which sets dkim_collect_input to 0 and calls pdkim_feed_finish(), which calls pdkim_header_complete(), which decreases dkim_collect_input to UINT_MAX, which reactivates the DKIM code. As a result, pdkim_feed() is called again (through receive_getc at the end of receive_msg()), but functions like pdkim_finish_bodyhash() and exim_sha_finish() have already been called (in pdkim_feed_finish()). This suggests a use-after-free. But it seems that a use-after-free would happen only with EVP_DigestFinal() (in exim_sha_finish()), which does not seem to be reachable via DKIM (no SHA3). But we checked OpenSSL only, not GnuTLS. Here is a proof of concept that triggers the bug (which came very close to a security vulnerability): (sleep 10; echo 'EHLO test'; sleep 3; echo 'MAIL FROM:<>'; sleep 3; echo 'RCPT TO:postmaster'; sleep 3; echo 'BDAT 42 LAST'; date >&2; sleep 30; printf 'not a valid header line\r\nDKIM-Signature:\r\nXXX'; sleep 30) | nc -n -v 192.168.56.102 25 (gdb) print &dkim_collect_input $2 = (unsigned int *) 0x55e180386d90 <dkim_collect_input> (gdb) watch *(unsigned int *) 0x55e180386d90 Hardware watchpoint 1: *(unsigned int *) 0x55e180386d90 Old value = 0 New value = 4294967295 #0 0x000055e18031f805 in pdkim_header_complete (ctx=ctx@entry=0x55e181b9e8e0) at pdkim.c:1006 #1 0x000055e18032106c in pdkim_feed_finish (ctx=0x55e181b9e8e0, return_signatures=0x55e180386d78 <dkim_signatures>, err=err@entry=0x7ffe443e1d00) at pdkim.c:1490 #2 0x000055e1802a3280 in dkim_exim_verify_finish () at dkim.c:328 #3 0x000055e1802c9d1d in receive_msg (extract_recip=extract_recip@entry=0) at receive.c:3409 (cherry picked from commit e3674091056ac05eb7ef1c504accce790c434bd7)
-rw-r--r--src/src/pdkim/pdkim.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/src/pdkim/pdkim.c b/src/src/pdkim/pdkim.c
index f68324097..01cf5dd28 100644
--- a/src/src/pdkim/pdkim.c
+++ b/src/src/pdkim/pdkim.c
@@ -1003,7 +1003,7 @@ else
last_sig->next = sig;
}
- if (--dkim_collect_input == 0)
+ if (dkim_collect_input && --dkim_collect_input == 0)
{
ctx->headers = pdkim_prepend_stringlist(ctx->headers, ctx->cur_header->s);
ctx->cur_header->s[ctx->cur_header->ptr = 0] = '\0';