Patch "selinux: ensure the context is NUL terminated in security_context_to_sid_core()" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    selinux: ensure the context is NUL terminated in security_context_to_sid_core()

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     selinux-ensure-the-context-is-nul-terminated-in-security_context_to_sid_core.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From ef28df55ac27e1e5cd122e19fa311d886d47a756 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 18:51:12 -0500
Subject: selinux: ensure the context is NUL terminated in security_context_to_sid_core()

From: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>

commit ef28df55ac27e1e5cd122e19fa311d886d47a756 upstream.

The syzbot/syzkaller automated tests found a problem in
security_context_to_sid_core() during early boot (before we load the
SELinux policy) where we could potentially feed context strings without
NUL terminators into the strcmp() function.

We already guard against this during normal operation (after the SELinux
policy has been loaded) by making a copy of the context strings and
explicitly adding a NUL terminator to the end.  The patch extends this
protection to the early boot case (no loaded policy) by moving the context
copy earlier in security_context_to_sid_core().

Reported-by: syzbot <syzkaller@googlegroups.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Reviewed-By: William Roberts <william.c.roberts@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 security/selinux/ss/services.c |   18 ++++++++----------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

--- a/security/selinux/ss/services.c
+++ b/security/selinux/ss/services.c
@@ -1400,27 +1400,25 @@ static int security_context_to_sid_core(
 	if (!scontext_len)
 		return -EINVAL;
 
+	/* Copy the string to allow changes and ensure a NUL terminator */
+	scontext2 = kmemdup_nul(scontext, scontext_len, gfp_flags);
+	if (!scontext2)
+		return -ENOMEM;
+
 	if (!ss_initialized) {
 		int i;
 
 		for (i = 1; i < SECINITSID_NUM; i++) {
-			if (!strcmp(initial_sid_to_string[i], scontext)) {
+			if (!strcmp(initial_sid_to_string[i], scontext2)) {
 				*sid = i;
-				return 0;
+				goto out;
 			}
 		}
 		*sid = SECINITSID_KERNEL;
-		return 0;
+		goto out;
 	}
 	*sid = SECSID_NULL;
 
-	/* Copy the string so that we can modify the copy as we parse it. */
-	scontext2 = kmalloc(scontext_len + 1, gfp_flags);
-	if (!scontext2)
-		return -ENOMEM;
-	memcpy(scontext2, scontext, scontext_len);
-	scontext2[scontext_len] = 0;
-
 	if (force) {
 		/* Save another copy for storing in uninterpreted form */
 		rc = -ENOMEM;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from paul@paul-moore.com are

queue-4.9/selinux-skip-bounded-transition-processing-if-the-policy-isn-t-loaded.patch
queue-4.9/selinux-ensure-the-context-is-nul-terminated-in-security_context_to_sid_core.patch