[U-Boot] [PATCH v3 0/8] Fix CVE-2018-18440 and CVE-2018-18439

Simon Goldschmidt simon.k.r.goldschmidt at gmail.com
Tue Dec 4 11:53:59 UTC 2018


On Tue, Dec 4, 2018 at 12:45 AM Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Simon,
>
> On Mon, 3 Dec 2018 at 12:05, Simon Goldschmidt
> <simon.k.r.goldschmidt at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Am Mo., 3. Dez. 2018, 19:20 hat Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> geschrieben:
> >>
> >> Hi Simon,
> >>
> >> On Mon, 3 Dec 2018 at 00:50, Simon Goldschmidt
> >> <simon.k.r.goldschmidt at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Simon,
> >> >
> >> > On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 6:45 AM Simon Goldschmidt
> >> > <simon.k.r.goldschmidt at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > > On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 2:02 AM Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> >> > > >
> >> > > > Hi Simon,
> >> > > >
> >> > > > On Sat, 17 Nov 2018 at 05:25, Simon Goldschmidt
> >> > > > <simon.k.r.goldschmidt at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > > 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 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 (8):
> >> > > > >   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
> >> > > > >   net: remove CONFIG_MCAST_TFTP
> >> > > > >   tftp: prevent overwriting reserved memory
> >> > > > >
> >> > > > >  README                       |   9 --
> >> > > > >  common/bootm.c               |   8 +-
> >> > > > >  common/image-fdt.c           |  52 ++++++-
> >> > > > >  drivers/net/rtl8139.c        |   9 --
> >> > > > >  drivers/net/tsec.c           |  52 -------
> >> > > > >  drivers/usb/gadget/ether.c   |   3 -
> >> > > > >  fs/fs.c                      |  56 ++++++-
> >> > > > >  include/lmb.h                |   7 +-
> >> > > > >  include/net.h                |  17 ---
> >> > > > >  lib/lmb.c                    |  69 +++++++++
> >> > > > >  net/eth-uclass.c             |   4 -
> >> > > > >  net/eth_legacy.c             |  46 ------
> >> > > > >  net/net.c                    |   9 +-
> >> > > > >  net/tftp.c                   | 289 +++++++----------------------------
> >> > > > >  scripts/config_whitelist.txt |   1 -
> >> > > > >  15 files changed, 232 insertions(+), 399 deletions(-)
> >> > > >
> >> > > > This is great work, but what is missing is a test for lmb.
> >> > >
> >> > > Yeah, well, the tests didn't work on my system and I figured it's
> >> > > better to get the code fixed than to use my time on trying to get the
> >> > > tests running.
> >> > >
> >> > > However, after searching for the required packages and fiddling around
> >> > > some more, I guess I made them work so I could add tests now...
> >> > >
> >> > > I also have work-in-progress for compressing fit image contents (we
> >> > > currently only support uncompressing the kernel). It will switch some
> >> > > 'lmb_reserve' calls to the new 'lmb_alloc_addr' as this is more safe.
> >> > > Maybe I can combine the tests in that series?
> >> >
> >> > After managing to get the tests to run via 'make qcheck' (and 'make
> >> > tests'; had to install much more than listed in 'test/py/README.md'),
> >> > I tried to add tests to 'test/lib/' (next to hexdump.c), but I failed
> >> > to get them run. Even chaning 'test/lib/hexdump.c' to fail did not
> >> > produce errors. Are these tests not included in 'make qcheck'?
> >>
> >> That runs the Python tests which are in test/py/tests. Some of those
> >> tests run compiled-in code (e.g. log_test.c and cmd_ut.c). Is your
> >> test intended to be Python or C?
> >
> >
> > I thought I'd create a unit test under test/lib that calls functions from lmb.c, so that would be C code. Python would not work without adding extra commands to call from Python.
> >
> > There are tests in test/lib, how do I run them?
>
> I suspect it is lib/ since it is holds tests for library functions,
> although hex_to_bin() is an inline function.
>
> Better to put tests in another dir. Maybe test/image ?

Well, my tests would ensure lib/lmb.c works as expected (especially
for the corner case reported by Frank), so I though test/lib/ would be
good?

> You can run an individual test with something like:
>
> /tmp/b/sandbox/u-boot  -d /tmp/b/sandbox/arch/sandbox/dts/test.dtb  -c
> "ut dm lib_test_bin2hex"
>
> where /tmp/b/sandbox is the build directory for sandbox.

OK, that worked, thanks for the hint. Did I miss this in the
documentation somewhere?

And are these tests executed in a standard test run (e.g. on travis)?
If not, how would they be integrated?

Thanks for your patience with me :-)

Regards,
Simon


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