Description:
elfutils is a set of libraries/utilities to handle ELF objects (drop in replacement for libelf).
A fuzz on eu-elflint showed an heap overflow.
The complete ASan output:
# eu-elflint -d $FILE
==14428==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow on address 0x60b00000aff4 at pc 0x00000040b36b bp 0x7ffe1e25ef20 sp 0x7ffe1e25ef18
READ of size 4 at 0x60b00000aff4 thread T0
#0 0x40b36a in check_sysv_hash /tmp/portage/dev-libs/elfutils-0.168/work/elfutils-0.168/src/elflint.c:2020
#1 0x40b36a in check_hash /tmp/portage/dev-libs/elfutils-0.168/work/elfutils-0.168/src/elflint.c:2315
#2 0x422e73 in check_sections /tmp/portage/dev-libs/elfutils-0.168/work/elfutils-0.168/src/elflint.c:4118
#3 0x42961f in process_elf_file /tmp/portage/dev-libs/elfutils-0.168/work/elfutils-0.168/src/elflint.c:4697
#4 0x42961f in process_file /tmp/portage/dev-libs/elfutils-0.168/work/elfutils-0.168/src/elflint.c:242
#5 0x402d33 in main /tmp/portage/dev-libs/elfutils-0.168/work/elfutils-0.168/src/elflint.c:175
#6 0x7f7a318a878f in __libc_start_main (/lib64/libc.so.6+0x2078f)
#7 0x403498 in _start (/usr/bin/eu-elflint+0x403498)
0x60b00000aff7 is located 0 bytes to the right of 103-byte region [0x60b00000af90,0x60b00000aff7)
allocated by thread T0 here:
#0 0x7f7a32f95288 in malloc (/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/6.3.0/libasan.so.3+0xc2288)
#1 0x7f7a32bf1b46 in convert_data /tmp/portage/dev-libs/elfutils-0.168/work/elfutils-0.168/libelf/elf_getdata.c:166
#2 0x7f7a32bf1b46 in __libelf_set_data_list_rdlock /tmp/portage/dev-libs/elfutils-0.168/work/elfutils-0.168/libelf/elf_getdata.c:434
#3 0x7f7a32bf2662 in __elf_getdata_rdlock /tmp/portage/dev-libs/elfutils-0.168/work/elfutils-0.168/libelf/elf_getdata.c:541
#4 0x7f7a32bf2776 in elf_getdata /tmp/portage/dev-libs/elfutils-0.168/work/elfutils-0.168/libelf/elf_getdata.c:559
#5 0x7f7a32c1e035 in elf32_getchdr /tmp/portage/dev-libs/elfutils-0.168/work/elfutils-0.168/libelf/elf32_getchdr.c:72
#6 0x7f7a32c1e55c in gelf_getchdr /tmp/portage/dev-libs/elfutils-0.168/work/elfutils-0.168/libelf/gelf_getchdr.c:52
#7 0x420edf in check_sections /tmp/portage/dev-libs/elfutils-0.168/work/elfutils-0.168/src/elflint.c:3911
#8 0x42961f in process_elf_file /tmp/portage/dev-libs/elfutils-0.168/work/elfutils-0.168/src/elflint.c:4697
#9 0x42961f in process_file /tmp/portage/dev-libs/elfutils-0.168/work/elfutils-0.168/src/elflint.c:242
#10 0x402d33 in main /tmp/portage/dev-libs/elfutils-0.168/work/elfutils-0.168/src/elflint.c:175
#11 0x7f7a318a878f in __libc_start_main (/lib64/libc.so.6+0x2078f)
SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow /tmp/portage/dev-libs/elfutils-0.168/work/elfutils-0.168/src/elflint.c:2020 in check_sysv_hash
Shadow bytes around the buggy address:
0x0c167fff95a0: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
0x0c167fff95b0: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
0x0c167fff95c0: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
0x0c167fff95d0: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
0x0c167fff95e0: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
=>0x0c167fff95f0: fa fa 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00[07]fa
0x0c167fff9600: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
0x0c167fff9610: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
0x0c167fff9620: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
0x0c167fff9630: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
0x0c167fff9640: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa
Shadow byte legend (one shadow byte represents 8 application bytes):
Addressable: 00
Partially addressable: 01 02 03 04 05 06 07
Heap left redzone: fa
Heap right redzone: fb
Freed heap region: fd
Stack left redzone: f1
Stack mid redzone: f2
Stack right redzone: f3
Stack partial redzone: f4
Stack after return: f5
Stack use after scope: f8
Global redzone: f9
Global init order: f6
Poisoned by user: f7
Container overflow: fc
Array cookie: ac
Intra object redzone: bb
ASan internal: fe
Left alloca redzone: ca
Right alloca redzone: cb
==14428==ABORTING
Affected version:
0.168
Fixed version:
0.169 (not released atm)
Commit fix:
https://sourceware.org/ml/elfutils-devel/2017-q1/msg00131.html
Credit:
This bug was discovered by Agostino Sarubbo of Gentoo.
CVE:
CVE-2017-7612
Reproducer:
https://github.com/asarubbo/poc/blob/master/00235-elfutils-heapoverflow-check_sysv_hash
Timeline:
2017-03-27: bug discovered and reported to upstream
2017-04-04: blog post about the issue
2017-04-09: CVE assigned
Note:
This bug was found with American Fuzzy Lop.
Permalink:
elfutils: heap-based buffer overflow in check_sysv_hash (elflint.c)