[U-Boot] [PATCH v4 0/7] Fix CVE-2018-18440 and CVE-2018-18439

Simon Goldschmidt simon.k.r.goldschmidt at gmail.com
Sun Dec 2 17:14:19 UTC 2018


Am 02.12.2018 um 16:48 schrieb Frank Wunderlich:
> lmb_init: base: 0x80000000, size: 0x80000000

Ok, so I don't know your board, is that correct? Do you have 2 GByte 
starting at 0x80000000?

If so, that would result in an overflow to 0 on a 32-bit platform and 
would explain why it doesn't work.

This is a perfect input for a test case :-)

Thanks,
Simon

> 
> https://github.com/frank-w/u-boot/commit/e0763252a8e135f00b996fbda7bb1067a192ca53
> 
> Regards Frank
> 
>> Gesendet: Sonntag, 02. Dezember 2018 um 10:24 Uhr
>> Von: "Simon Goldschmidt" <simon.k.r.goldschmidt at gmail.com>
>> An: "Frank Wunderlich" <frank-w at public-files.de>
>> Cc: u-boot at lists.denx.de
>> Betreff: Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH v4 0/7] Fix CVE-2018-18440 and CVE-2018-18439
>>
>> Am 01.12.2018 um 12:07 schrieb Frank Wunderlich:
>>> forgot error-message and detailed command:
>>>
>>> fatload ${device} ${partition} ${scriptaddr} ${bpi}/${board}/${service}/${bootenv}
>>> ** Reading file would overwrite reserved memory **
>>> echo ${device} ${partition} ${scriptaddr} ${bpi}/${board}/${service}/${bootenv}
>>> mmc 1:1 0x83000000 bananapi/bpi-r2/linux/uEnv.txt
>>>
>>> file exists i checked with test, but fatload failed, after reverting the Patches same command works
>>
>> Hmm, ok. With your configuration, I thought 'gd->bd->bi_dram[0].start'
>> and 'gd->bd->bi_dram[0].size' should be populated and correctly describe
>> your DRAM.
>>
>> Could you try adding this printf code to the function
>> 'lmb_init_and_reserve':
>>
>> 	printf("lmb_init: base: 0x%x, size: 0x%x\n", base, size);
>>
>> and check if this correctly describes your memory?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Simon
>>
>>>
>>> regards Frank
>>>
>>>> Gesendet: Samstag, 01. Dezember 2018 um 10:46 Uhr
>>>> Von: "Frank Wunderlich" <frank-w at public-files.de>
>>>> An: "Simon Goldschmidt" <simon.k.r.goldschmidt at gmail.com>
>>>> Cc: u-boot at lists.denx.de
>>>> Betreff: Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH v4 0/7] Fix CVE-2018-18440 and CVE-2018-18439
>>>>
>>>> Hi Simon
>>>>
>>>> #define CONFIG_SYS_SDRAM_BASE		0x80000000
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/frank-w/u-boot/blob/a6d0c3f8e992a2e428f05443647fe9f5b13f8634/include/configs/mt7623.h#L47
>>>>
>>>> CONFIG_ARM=y
>>>> CONFIG_NR_DRAM_BANKS=1
>>>> https://github.com/frank-w/u-boot/blob/a6d0c3f8e992a2e428f05443647fe9f5b13f8634/configs/mt7623n_bpir2_defconfig#L7
>>>>
>>>> i applied the patch-series on top of my 2018-11 final (currently removed from github)
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/frank-w/u-boot/tree/bpi-r2_v5
>>>>
>>>> tried ${scriptaddr}=0x83000000
>>>>
>>>> here the fatload-command:
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/frank-w/u-boot/blob/60bc4075c7744e36058fcba76cd6e6c3a4002265/uEnv.txt#L22
>>>>
>>>> working before, 0x81000000 and some higher values
>>>>
>>>> HTH
>>>>
>>>> regards Frank
>>>>
>>>>> Gesendet: Samstag, 01. Dezember 2018 um 10:25 Uhr
>>>>> Von: "Simon Goldschmidt" <simon.k.r.goldschmidt at gmail.com>
>>>>> An: "Frank Wunderlich" <frank-w at public-files.de>
>>>>> Cc: "U-Boot Mailing List" <u-boot at lists.denx.de>
>>>>> Betreff: Re: [U-Boot] [PATCH v4 0/7] Fix CVE-2018-18440 and CVE-2018-18439
>>>>>
>>>>> On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 6:51 PM Frank Wunderlich
>>>>> <frank-w at public-files.de> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Simon,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> after applying these Patch-series i cannot load to any address (fatload). Do i need any additional Patch ("fdt: parse "reserved-memory" for memory reservation" sounds like that). Maybe there should be a fallback if no reservation is defined.
>>>>>
>>>>> No, you should not need additional patches. The code makes use of
>>>>> "lmb" memory allocation just like the "bootm" code does. The "memory
>>>>> reservation" patch you cited only ensures that memory which is marked
>>>>> as reserved in the fdt cannot be overwritten by load.
>>>>>
>>>>> If it doesn't work for you at all, the available memory is probably
>>>>> not described correctly. Could you check the values of the following
>>>>> defines (or if they are defined at all):
>>>>> - CONFIG_SYS_SDRAM_BASE
>>>>> - CONFIG_ARM
>>>>> - CONFIG_NR_DRAM_BANKS
>>>>>
>>>>> I might need to improve the DRAM detection code in v5 (which is still
>>>>> pending as I am working on lmb tests).
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards,
>>>>> Simon
>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> regards Frank
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Gesendet: Samstag, 24. November 2018 um 15:11 Uhr
>>>>>>> Von: "Simon Goldschmidt" <simon.k.r.goldschmidt at gmail.com>
>>>>>>> An: "Tom Rini" <trini at konsulko.com>, u-boot at lists.denx.de, "Joe Hershberger" <joe.hershberger at ni.com>
>>>>>>> Cc: "Alexey Brodkin" <Alexey.Brodkin at synopsys.com>, "Heinrich Schuchardt" <xypron.glpk at gmx.de>, "Michal Simek" <michal.simek at xilinx.com>, "Alexander Graf" <agraf at suse.de>, "Andrea Barisani" <andrea.barisani at f-secure.com>
>>>>>>> Betreff: [U-Boot] [PATCH v4 0/7] Fix CVE-2018-18440 and CVE-2018-18439
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> This series fixes CVE-2018-18440 ("insufficient boundary checks in
>>>>>>> filesystem image load") by adding restrictions to the 'load'
>>>>>>> command and fixes CVE-2018-18439 ("insufficient boundary checks in
>>>>>>> network image boot") by adding restrictions to the tftp code.
>>>>>>> The functions from lmb.c are used to setup regions of allowed and
>>>>>>> reserved memory. Then, the file size to load is checked against these
>>>>>>> addresses and loading the file is aborted if it would overwrite
>>>>>>> reserved memory.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The memory reservation code is reused from bootm/image.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Changes in v4:
>>>>>>> - fixed invalid 'if' statement without braces in boot_fdt_reserve_region
>>>>>>> - removed patch 7 ("net: remove CONFIG_MCAST_TFTP), adapted patch 8
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Changes in v3:
>>>>>>> - No patch changes, but needed to resend since patman added too many cc
>>>>>>>     addresses that gmail seemed to detect as spam :-(
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Changes in v2:
>>>>>>> - added code to reserve devicetree reserved-memory in lmb
>>>>>>> - added tftp fixes (patches 7 and 8)
>>>>>>> - fixed a bug in new function lmb_alloc_addr
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Simon Goldschmidt (7):
>>>>>>>     lib: lmb: reserving overlapping regions should fail
>>>>>>>     fdt: parse "reserved-memory" for memory reservation
>>>>>>>     lib: lmb: extend lmb for checks at load time
>>>>>>>     fs: prevent overwriting reserved memory
>>>>>>>     bootm: use new common function lmb_init_and_reserve
>>>>>>>     lmb: remove unused extern declaration
>>>>>>>     tftp: prevent overwriting reserved memory
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>    common/bootm.c     |  8 ++----
>>>>>>>    common/image-fdt.c | 53 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
>>>>>>>    fs/fs.c            | 56 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
>>>>>>>    include/lmb.h      |  7 +++--
>>>>>>>    lib/lmb.c          | 69 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>>>>>>    net/tftp.c         | 66 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
>>>>>>>    6 files changed, 231 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> 2.17.1
>>>>>>>
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