[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] lib/rte_rib6: fix stack buffer overflow

[Medvedkin, Vladimir]

Hi Owen,

Thanks for the fix.

I like your solution with removing the loop. However, while this fixes 
the buffer overflow, IMO it is not complete, because get_dir() shouldn't 
be called in cases where depth = 128. In this case checking the MSB of 
the ip is not quite right thing.
The only place where it is possible (depth == 128) is on calling 
get_nxt_node() from rte_rib6_lookup(), so I would suggest adding 
something like this:

if (depth == 128)
	return NULL;

to get_nxt_node() along with your changes.

Also, apart from Stephen's comments, please add the corresponding 
fixline to the v2.

Thanks!


On 16/06/2021 19:56, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jun 2021 12:07:29 -0400
> ohilyard at iol.unh.edu wrote:
> 
>> From: Owen Hilyard <ohilyard at iol.unh.edu>
>>
>> ASAN found a stack buffer overflow in lib/rib/rte_rib6.c:get_dir.
>> The fix for the stack buffer overflow was to make sure depth
>> was always < 128, since when depth = 128 it caused the index
>> into the ip address to be 16, which read off the end of the array.
>>
>> While trying to solve the buffer overflow, I noticed that a few
>> changes could be made to remove the for loop entirely.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Owen Hilyard <ohilyard at iol.unh.edu>
>> ---
>>   lib/rib/rte_rib6.c | 22 ++++++++++++++--------
>>   1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/lib/rib/rte_rib6.c b/lib/rib/rte_rib6.c
>> index f6c55ee45..2de50449d 100644
>> --- a/lib/rib/rte_rib6.c
>> +++ b/lib/rib/rte_rib6.c
>> @@ -79,14 +79,20 @@ is_covered(const uint8_t ip1[RTE_RIB6_IPV6_ADDR_SIZE],
>>   static inline int
>>   get_dir(const uint8_t ip[RTE_RIB6_IPV6_ADDR_SIZE], uint8_t depth)
>>   {
>> -	int i = 0;
>> -	uint8_t p_depth, msk;
>> -
>> -	for (p_depth = depth; p_depth >= 8; p_depth -= 8)
>> -		i++;
>> -
>> -	msk = 1 << (7 - p_depth);
>> -	return (ip[i] & msk) != 0;
>> +	int index, msk;
>> +	/* depth & 127 clamps depth to values that will not
> 
> Please put blank line after declarations for clarity.
> Since index and mask are not signed values, please make them unsigned.
> Better yet, make them sized to the appropriate number of bits.
> 
>> +	 * read off the end of ip.
>> +	 * depth is the number of bits deep into ip to traverse, and
>> +	 * is incremented in blocks of 8 (1 byte). This means the last
>> +	 * 3 bits are irrelevant to what the index of ip should be.
>> +	 */
>> +	index = (depth & 127) >> 3;
>> +	/*
>> +	 * msk is the bitmask used to extract the bit used to decide the
>> +	 * direction of the next step of the binary search.
>> +	 */
>> +	msk = 1 << (7 - (depth & 7));
>> +	return (ip[index] & msk) != 0;
>>   }
>>   
>>   static inline struct rte_rib6_node *
> 

-- 
Regards,
Vladimir