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Commit ca814325 authored by Ondrej Mosnacek's avatar Ondrej Mosnacek Committed by Paul Gortmaker
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selinux: fix context string corruption in convert_context()



commit 2a524393 upstream.

string_to_context_struct() may garble the context string, so we need to
copy back the contents again from the old context struct to avoid
storing the corrupted context.

Since string_to_context_struct() tokenizes (and therefore truncates) the
context string and we are later potentially copying it with kstrdup(),
this may eventually cause pieces of uninitialized kernel memory to be
disclosed to userspace (when copying to userspace based on the stored
length and not the null character).

How to reproduce on Fedora and similar:
    # dnf install -y memcached
    # systemctl start memcached
    # semodule -d memcached
    # load_policy
    # load_policy
    # systemctl stop memcached
    # ausearch -m AVC
    type=AVC msg=audit(1570090572.648:313): avc:  denied  { signal } for  pid=1 comm="systemd" scontext=system_u:system_r:init_t:s0 tcontext=system_u:object_r:unlabeled_t:s0 tclass=process permissive=0 trawcon=73797374656D5F75007400000000000070BE6E847296FFFF726F6D000096FFFF76

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: default avatarMilos Malik <mmalik@redhat.com>
Fixes: ee1a84fd ("selinux: overhaul sidtab to fix bug and improve performance")
Signed-off-by: default avatarOndrej Mosnacek <omosnace@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarStephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Moore <paul@paul-moore.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
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