PHP :: Sec Bug #71488 :: Stack overflow when decompressing tar archives

Sec Bug #71488	Stack overflow when decompressing tar archives
Submitted:	2016-01-31 19:58 UTC	Modified:	2016-03-10 21:12 UTC
From:	hji at dyntopia dot com	Assigned:	stas (profile)
Status:	Closed	Package:	PHAR related
PHP Version:	5.5.31	OS:
Private report:	No	CVE-ID:	2016-2554

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[2016-01-31 19:58 UTC] hji at dyntopia dot com

Description:
------------
A stack overflow may occur when decompressing tar archives due to
`phar_tar_writeheaders()' potentially copying non-terminated linknames
from entries parsed by `phar_parse_tarfile()' (tested with 5.6.11,
5.6.17 and 7.0.2).


php-5.6.17/ext/phar/tar.h #65..94:
,----
| typedef struct _tar_header {  /* {{{ */
|     [...]
|     char linkname[100]; /* name of linked file */
|     char magic[6];      /* USTAR indicator */
|     char version[2];    /* USTAR version */
|     char uname[32];     /* owner user name */
|     char gname[32];     /* owner group name */
|     char devmajor[8];   /* device major number */
|     char devminor[8];   /* device minor number */
|     char prefix[155];   /* prefix for file name;
|                            the value of the prefix field, if non-null,
|                            is prefixed to the name field to allow names
|                            longer then 100 characters */
|     char padding[12];   /* unused zeroed bytes */
| } PHAR_TAR_PACK tar_header;
`----


php-5.6.17/ext/phar/tar.c #198..678:
,----
| int phar_parse_tarfile(php_stream* fp, char *fname, int fname_len, char *alias, int alias_len, phar_archive_data** pphar, int is_data, php_uint32 compression, char **error TSRMLS_DC) /* {{{ */
| {
|     char buf[512], *actual_alias = NULL, *p;
|     phar_entry_info entry = {0};
|     size_t pos = 0, read, totalsize;
|     tar_header *hdr;
|     php_uint32 sum1, sum2, size, old;
|     phar_archive_data *myphar, **actual;
|     int last_was_longlink = 0;
| 
|     [...]
|     read = php_stream_read(fp, buf, sizeof(buf));
|     [...]
| 
|     do {
|         [...]
|         hdr = (tar_header*) buf;
|         [...]
| 
|         if (entry.tar_type == TAR_LINK) {
|             [...]
|             entry.link = estrdup(hdr->linkname);
|         } else if (entry.tar_type == TAR_SYMLINK) {
|             entry.link = estrdup(hdr->linkname);
|         }
|         [...]
|         read = php_stream_read(fp, buf, sizeof(buf));
|         [...]
|     } while (read != 0);
|     [...]
| }
| /* }}} */
`----


linkname is expected to be <=100 bytes and it's estrdup:ed from
`((tar_header *)buf)->linkname' to `entry.link'.  However, since there's
no guarantee that `linkname' or any of the following buffers are
NUL-terminated, the resulting `entry.link' may be at least
sizeof(linkname) + ... + sizeof(padding) = 355 bytes (and possibly
bigger depending on where \0 is encountered).

As the header is later written in `phar_tar_writeheaders()', linkname is
strncpy:d to `char linkname[100]' with a len based on the source string.

php-5.6.17/ext/phar/tar.c #688..835:
,----
| static int phar_tar_writeheaders(void *pDest, void *argument TSRMLS_DC) /* {{{ */
| {
|     tar_header header;
|     [...]
|     phar_entry_info *entry = (phar_entry_info *) pDest;
| 
|     [...]
|     if (entry->link) {
|         strncpy(header.linkname, entry->link, strlen(entry->link));
|     }
|     [...]
| }
| /* }}} */
`----


Test script:
---------------
crash.py: https://gist.github.com/dyntopia/561a1be3b0e772d792b6
phar.py: https://gist.github.com/dyntopia/292f2b975f18dde06491

Actual result:
--------------
With php-5.6.17 compiled with -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2:

,----
| $ python crash.py crash.tar
| $ gdb --args php-5.6.17/bin/php phar.php crash.tar ext
| (gdb) b tar.c:490
| (gdb) r
| Breakpoint 1, phar_parse_tarfile [...]
| 490				entry.link = estrdup(hdr->linkname);
| 
| (gdb) call strlen(hdr->linkname)
| $1 = 617
| (gdb) printf "%s\n", hdr->linkname
| linkname...linkname...linkname...linkname...linkname...linkname...
| linkname...linkname...linkname...lmagic...uname...uname...uname...
| uname...gname...gname...gname...gname...major...minor...prefix...
| prefix...prefix...prefix...prefix...prefix...prefix...prefix...
| prefix...prefix...prefix...prefix...prefix...prefix...prefix...
| prefix...prefix...prpadding...paprefix...prefix...prefix...
| prefix...prefix...prefix...prefix...prefix...prefix...prefix...
| prefix...prefix...prefix...prefix...prefix...prefix...prefix...
| pr/name...name...name...name...name...name...name...name...name...
| name...name...name...name...name...na?????
| 
| (gdb) b strncpy
| (gdb) c
| Breakpoint 2, phar_tar_writeheaders [...]
| 756			strncpy(header.linkname, entry->link, strlen(entry->link));
| (gdb) p sizeof(header.linkname)
| $2 = 100
| 
| (gdb) s
| strncpy (__len=617, __src=0x7ffff7fdbbe0 "linkname...linkname...
| linkname...linkname...linkname...linkname...linkname...linkname...
| linkname...lmagic...uname...uname...uname...uname...gname...gname...
| gname...gname...major...minor...prefix...pre"..., __dest=0x7fffffffa13d "")
| at /usr/include/x86_64-linux-gnu/bits/string3.h:126
| 126	  return __builtin___strncpy_chk (__dest, __src, __len, __bos (__dest));
| 
| (gdb) c
| Continuing.
|  *** buffer overflow detected ***: /home/php/php-5.6.17/bin/php terminated
| ======= Backtrace: =========
| /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x78c4e)[0x7ffff6fa7c4e]
| /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__fortify_fail+0x5c)[0x7ffff7047e8c]
| /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x116e80)[0x7ffff7045e80]
| /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x116319)[0x7ffff7045319]
| /home/php/php-5.6.17/bin/php[0x5983e4]
| /home/php/php-5.6.17/bin/php(zend_hash_apply_with_argument+0x79)[0x6f4cf9]
| /home/php/php-5.6.17/bin/php[0x59aa84]
| /home/php/php-5.6.17/bin/php[0x5af476]
| /home/php/php-5.6.17/bin/php[0x5ba050]
| /home/php/php-5.6.17/bin/php[0x5baf2a]
| /home/php/php-5.6.17/bin/php[0x79543f]
| /home/php/php-5.6.17/bin/php(execute_ex+0x40)[0x723a50]
| /home/php/php-5.6.17/bin/php(zend_execute_scripts+0x180)[0x6e7dd0]
| /home/php/php-5.6.17/bin/php(php_execute_script+0x280)[0x683160]
| /home/php/php-5.6.17/bin/php[0x796f32]
| /home/php/php-5.6.17/bin/php[0x423c9e]
| /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xf0)[0x7ffff6f4fa40]
| /home/php/php-5.6.17/bin/php(_start+0x29)[0x423de9]
| ======= Memory map: ========
| 00400000-00bff000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 557690                             /home/php/php-5.6.17/bin/php
| 00dfe000-00e8f000 r--p 007fe000 08:01 557690                             /home/php/php-5.6.17/bin/php
| 00e8f000-00e98000 rw-p 0088f000 08:01 557690                             /home/php/php-5.6.17/bin/php
| 00e98000-01051000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0                                  [heap]
| 7ffff44f3000-7ffff4931000 r--p 00000000 08:01 136079                     /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
| 7ffff4931000-7ffff4947000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 786971                     /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1
| 7ffff4947000-7ffff4b46000 ---p 00016000 08:01 786971                     /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1
| 7ffff4b46000-7ffff4b47000 r--p 00015000 08:01 786971                     /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1
| 7ffff4b47000-7ffff4b48000 rw-p 00016000 08:01 786971                     /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgcc_s.so.1
| 7ffff4b48000-7ffff4cbb000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 133608                     /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6.0.21
| 7ffff4cbb000-7ffff4eba000 ---p 00173000 08:01 133608                     /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6.0.21
| 7ffff4eba000-7ffff4ec4000 r--p 00172000 08:01 133608                     /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6.0.21
| 7ffff4ec4000-7ffff4ec6000 rw-p 0017c000 08:01 133608                     /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6.0.21
| 7ffff4ec6000-7ffff4eca000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
| 7ffff4eca000-7ffff6780000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 140633                     /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libicudata.so.55.1
| 7ffff6780000-7ffff697f000 ---p 018b6000 08:01 140633                     /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libicudata.so.55.1
| 7ffff697f000-7ffff6980000 r--p 018b5000 08:01 140633                     /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libicudata.so.55.1
| 7ffff6980000-7ffff6981000 rw-p 018b6000 08:01 140633                     /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libicudata.so.55.1
| 7ffff6981000-7ffff699a000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 787064                     /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1.2.8
| 7ffff699a000-7ffff6b99000 ---p 00019000 08:01 787064                     /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1.2.8
| 7ffff6b99000-7ffff6b9a000 r--p 00018000 08:01 787064                     /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1.2.8
| 7ffff6b9a000-7ffff6b9b000 rw-p 00019000 08:01 787064                     /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1.2.8
| 7ffff6b9b000-7ffff6d1a000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 140629                     /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libicuuc.so.55.1
| 7ffff6d1a000-7ffff6f1a000 ---p 0017f000 08:01 140629                     /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libicuuc.so.55.1
| 7ffff6f1a000-7ffff6f2a000 r--p 0017f000 08:01 140629                     /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libicuuc.so.55.1
| 7ffff6f2a000-7ffff6f2b000 rw-p 0018f000 08:01 140629                     /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libicuuc.so.55.1
| 7ffff6f2b000-7ffff6f2f000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
| 7ffff6f2f000-7ffff70ef000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 786945                     /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.21.so
| 7ffff70ef000-7ffff72ef000 ---p 001c0000 08:01 786945                     /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.21.so
| 7ffff72ef000-7ffff72f3000 r--p 001c0000 08:01 786945                     /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.21.so
| 7ffff72f3000-7ffff72f5000 rw-p 001c4000 08:01 786945                     /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc-2.21.so
| 7ffff72f5000-7ffff72f9000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
| 7ffff72f9000-7ffff74a6000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 134031                     /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxml2.so.2.9.2
| 7ffff74a6000-7ffff76a6000 ---p 001ad000 08:01 134031                     /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxml2.so.2.9.2
| 7ffff76a6000-7ffff76ae000 r--p 001ad000 08:01 134031                     /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxml2.so.2.9.2
| 7ffff76ae000-7ffff76b0000 rw-p 001b5000 08:01 134031                     /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libxml2.so.2.9.2
| 7ffff76b0000-7ffff76b1000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
| 7ffff76b1000-7ffff76b4000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 786959                     /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl-2.21.so
| 7ffff76b4000-7ffff78b3000 ---p 00003000 08:01 786959                     /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl-2.21.so
| 7ffff78b3000-7ffff78b4000 r--p 00002000 08:01 786959                     /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl-2.21.so
| 7ffff78b4000-7ffff78b5000 rw-p 00003000 08:01 786959                     /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libdl-2.21.so
| 7ffff78b5000-7ffff79bc000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 786990                     /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm-2.21.so
| 7ffff79bc000-7ffff7bbb000 ---p 00107000 08:01 786990                     /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm-2.21.so
| 7ffff7bbb000-7ffff7bbc000 r--p 00106000 08:01 786990                     /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm-2.21.so
| 7ffff7bbc000-7ffff7bbd000 rw-p 00107000 08:01 786990                     /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm-2.21.so
| 7ffff7bbd000-7ffff7bd4000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 787034                     /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libresolv-2.21.so
| 7ffff7bd4000-7ffff7dd4000 ---p 00017000 08:01 787034                     /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libresolv-2.21.so
| 7ffff7dd4000-7ffff7dd6000 r--p 00017000 08:01 787034                     /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libresolv-2.21.so
| 7ffff7dd6000-7ffff7dd7000 rw-p 00019000 08:01 787034                     /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libresolv-2.21.so
| 7ffff7dd7000-7ffff7dd9000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
| 7ffff7dd9000-7ffff7dfd000 r-xp 00000000 08:01 786921                     /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.21.so
| 7ffff7e51000-7ffff7fea000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
| 7ffff7ff5000-7ffff7ff8000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
| 7ffff7ff8000-7ffff7ffa000 r--p 00000000 00:00 0                          [vvar]
| 7ffff7ffa000-7ffff7ffc000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0                          [vdso]
| 7ffff7ffc000-7ffff7ffd000 r--p 00023000 08:01 786921                     /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.21.so
| 7ffff7ffd000-7ffff7ffe000 rw-p 00024000 08:01 786921                     /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-2.21.so
| 7ffff7ffe000-7ffff7fff000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0
| 7ffffffde000-7ffffffff000 rw-p 00000000 00:00 0                          [stack]
| ffffffffff600000-ffffffffff601000 r-xp 00000000 00:00 0                  [vsyscall]
| 
| Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
| 0x00007ffff6f64267 in __GI_raise (sig=sig@entry=6) at ../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c:55
| 55	../sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/raise.c: No such file or directory.
| (gdb)
`----


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[2016-02-01 03:31 UTC] stas@php.net

-Assigned To: +Assigned To: stas

[2016-02-01 03:40 UTC] stas@php.net

-PHP Version: 5.6.17 +PHP Version: 5.5.31

[2016-02-01 03:40 UTC] stas@php.net

Thanks for the report! Patch added to security repo commit 07c7df68bd68bbe706371fccc77c814ebb335d9e and here: https://gist.github.com/smalyshev/7e8403a564c70977a971

Please verify.

[2016-02-01 15:01 UTC] hji at dyntopia dot com

I took a look at _estrndup():

zend_alloc.c #2641..2659:
,----
| ZEND_API char *_estrndup(const char *s, uint length ZEND_FILE_LINE_DC ZEND_FILE_LINE_ORIG_DC)
| {
|     char *p;
|     [...]
| 
|     p = (char *) _emalloc(safe_address(length, 1, 1) ZEND_FILE_LINE_RELAY_CC ZEND_FILE_LINE_ORIG_RELAY_CC);
|     [...]
| 
|     memcpy(p, s, length);
|     p[length] = 0;
| 
|     [...]
|     return p;
| }
`----

And the linked patch:

,----
| linkname_len = strnlen(hdr->linkname, 100);
| [...]
| entry.link = estrndup(hdr->linkname, linkname_len);
`----

With safe_address() returning nmemb * size + offset, the max size of
entry.link is 101 bytes, with the last being \0.

When strncpy():ing in phar_tar_writeheaders():

,----
| memset((char *) &header, 0, sizeof(header));                // (1)
| [...]
| strncpy(header.linkname, entry->link, strlen(entry->link)); // (2)
| [...]
| strncpy(header.magic, "ustar", sizeof("ustar")-1);          // (3)
`----

Since strlen() don't account for the terminating NUL, the max len in
(2) is 100.  With a len of 100, all of linkname will be non-NUL with a
resulting string of linkname + \0 from magic[0] due to the header
being zeroed in (1).  However, after (3), the string is
linkname + magic:

,----
| $ gdb --args patch-php-5.6.17/bin/php phar.php crash.tar ext
| (gdb) b tar.c:769
| (gdb) r
| Breakpoint 1, phar_tar_writeheaders [...]
| 769    strncpy(header.magic, "ustar", sizeof("ustar")-1);
| 
| (gdb) x/s header.linkname
| 0x7fffffff9d7d:	"linkname...linkname...linkname...linkname...
| linkname...linkname...linkname...linkname...linkname...l"
| 
| (gdb) call strlen(header.linkname)
| $1 = 100
| 
| (gdb) n
| 770    strncpy(header.version, "00", sizeof("00")-1);
| 
| (gdb) x/s header.linkname
| 0x7fffffff9d7d:	"linkname...linkname...linkname...linkname...
| linkname...linkname...linkname...linkname...linkname...lustar"
| 
| (gdb) call strlen(header.linkname)
| $2 = 105
`----

[2016-02-02 03:19 UTC] stas@php.net

Automatic comment on behalf of stas
Revision: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=07c7df68bd68bbe706371fccc77c814ebb335d9e
Log: Fixed bug #71488: Stack overflow when decompressing tar archives

[2016-02-02 03:19 UTC] stas@php.net

-Status: Assigned +Status: Closed

[2016-02-02 03:36 UTC] stas@php.net

Automatic comment on behalf of stas
Revision: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=07c7df68bd68bbe706371fccc77c814ebb335d9e
Log: Fixed bug #71488: Stack overflow when decompressing tar archives

[2016-02-02 04:46 UTC] stas@php.net

Automatic comment on behalf of stas
Revision: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=07c7df68bd68bbe706371fccc77c814ebb335d9e
Log: Fixed bug #71488: Stack overflow when decompressing tar archives

[2016-03-10 21:12 UTC] kaplan@php.net

-CVE-ID: +CVE-ID: 2016-2554

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