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Sec Bug #74651 negative-size-param (-1) in memcpy in zif_openssl_seal()
Submitted: 2017-05-25 10:00 UTC Modified: 2018-01-15 12:18 UTC
From: l dot wei at ntu dot edu dot sg Assigned: stas (profile)
Status: Closed Package: OpenSSL related
PHP Version: 7.0.21 OS: *
Private report: No CVE-ID: 2017-11144
View Developer Edit
 [2017-05-25 10:00 UTC] l dot wei at ntu dot edu dot sg 
Description:
------------
A wild memcpy is discovered in the openssl package included in stable PHP release. During parsing a PEM certificate in openssl_seal(), an invalid key length is produced after parsing, eskl[0] value is -1 after the call to EVP_SealInit(),

Breakpoint 1, zif_openssl_seal (execute_data=0xf2e13270, return_value=0xffff9150) at /home/sebastian/Documents/php-7.1.5/ext/openssl/openssl.c:5881
5881		eksl = safe_emalloc(nkeys, sizeof(*eksl), 0);

(gdb) n
5882		eks = safe_emalloc(nkeys, sizeof(*eks), 0);

(gdb) x/10bx eksl
0xf2e6b010:	0x18	0xb0	0xe6	0xf2	0x00	0x00	0x00	0x00
0xf2e6b018:	0x20	0xb0

(gdb) watch eksl[0]
Hardware watchpoint 2: eksl[0]
(gdb) c
Continuing.

Hardware watchpoint 2: eksl[0]

Old value = -219762664
New value = -1
0xf763288d in EVP_SealInit () from /usr/local/lib/libcrypto.so.1.1
(gdb) bt
#0  0xf763288d in EVP_SealInit () from /usr/local/lib/libcrypto.so.1.1
#1  0x08161ec3 in zif_openssl_seal (execute_data=0xf2e13270, return_value=0xffff9150) at /home/sebastian/Documents/php-7.1.5/ext/openssl/openssl.c:5913
#2  0x08e7a9b6 in ZEND_DO_ICALL_SPEC_RETVAL_UNUSED_HANDLER () at /home/sebastian/Documents/php-7.1.5/Zend/zend_vm_execute.h:628
#3  0x08e74c5a in execute_ex (ex=0xf2e13020) at /home/sebastian/Documents/php-7.1.5/Zend/zend_vm_execute.h:429
#4  0x08e766f0 in zend_execute (op_array=0xf2e68200, return_value=0x0) at /home/sebastian/Documents/php-7.1.5/Zend/zend_vm_execute.h:474
#5  0x08cc60be in zend_execute_scripts (type=8, retval=0x0, file_count=3) at /home/sebastian/Documents/php-7.1.5/Zend/zend.c:1476
#6  0x08b0c6c4 in php_execute_script (primary_file=0xffffbc10) at /home/sebastian/Documents/php-7.1.5/main/main.c:2537
#7  0x0920a0bd in do_cli (argc=3, argv=0xf4000670) at /home/sebastian/Documents/php-7.1.5/sapi/cli/php_cli.c:993
#8  0x0920cbf0 in main (argc=3, argv=0xf4000670) at /home/sebastian/Documents/php-7.1.5/sapi/cli/php_cli.c:1381

eksl[0] as -1 when passed into add_next_index_stringl() would cause the wild copy:

5930                 for (i=0; i<nkeys; i++) {
5931                         eks[i][eksl[i]] = '\0';
5932                         add_next_index_stringl(ekeys, (const char*)eks[i], eksl[i]);
5933                         efree(eks[i]);
5934                         eks[i] = NULL;
5935                 }

Continuing.
=================================================================
==26054==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: negative-size-param: (size=-1)
    #0 0xf7ae5b04 in __asan_memcpy (/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libasan.so.2+0x8ab04)
    #1 0xf7ae5c2f in memcpy (/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libasan.so.2+0x8ac2f)
    #2 0x8cdacb6 in zend_string_init /home/sebastian/Documents/php-7.1.5/Zend/zend_string.h:160
    #3 0x8cdacb6 in add_next_index_stringl /home/sebastian/Documents/php-7.1.5/Zend/zend_API.c:1554
    #4 0x81627d2 in zif_openssl_seal /home/sebastian/Documents/php-7.1.5/ext/openssl/openssl.c:5932
    #5 0x8e7a9b5 in ZEND_DO_ICALL_SPEC_RETVAL_UNUSED_HANDLER /home/sebastian/Documents/php-7.1.5/Zend/zend_vm_execute.h:628
    #6 0x8e74c59 in execute_ex /home/sebastian/Documents/php-7.1.5/Zend/zend_vm_execute.h:429
    #7 0x8e766ef in zend_execute /home/sebastian/Documents/php-7.1.5/Zend/zend_vm_execute.h:474
    #8 0x8cc60bd in zend_execute_scripts /home/sebastian/Documents/php-7.1.5/Zend/zend.c:1476
    #9 0x8b0c6c3 in php_execute_script /home/sebastian/Documents/php-7.1.5/main/main.c:2537
    #10 0x920a0bc in do_cli /home/sebastian/Documents/php-7.1.5/sapi/cli/php_cli.c:993
    #11 0x920cbef in main /home/sebastian/Documents/php-7.1.5/sapi/cli/php_cli.c:1381
    #12 0xf7374636 in __libc_start_main (/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6+0x18636)
    #13 0x806a970  (/home/sebastian/Documents/php_gdb/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu-php+0x806a970)

AddressSanitizer can not describe address in more detail (wild memory access suspected).
SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: negative-size-param ??:0 __asan_memcpy
==26054==ABORTING

Report will be forwarded to OpenSSL too.

Credit:

Sebastian Li, Wei Lei, Xie Xiaofei and Liu Yang of Nanyang Technological University


Test script:
---------------
<?php 
$argc = $_SERVER['argc'];
$argv = $_SERVER['argv'];

$dir_str = dirname(__FILE__);
$file_str = ($dir_str)."/".$argv[1];
echo "Input file: ".$file_str."\n";

if(!extension_loaded('openssl')) print "openssl not loaded.\n";

$inputstr = file_get_contents($file_str);
print strlen($inputstr) . " bytes read.\n";

$pub_key_id = openssl_get_publickey($inputstr);
var_dump($pub_key_id);

openssl_seal($inputstr, $sealed, $ekeys, array($pub_key_id, $pub_key_id), 'AES-128-ECB');

var_dump($sealed);	
?>

Expected result:
----------------
No crash

Actual result:
--------------
$ uname -a
Linux CSLB16U 4.4.0-78-generic #99-Ubuntu SMP Thu Apr 27 15:29:09 UTC 2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

$ ./i686-pc-linux-gnu-php --version
PHP 7.1.5 (cli) (built: May 25 2017 16:35:37) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) 1997-2017 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.1.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2017 Zend Technologies

$ xxd -g 1 repro.pem 
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$ ./i686-pc-linux-gnu-php openSSLharn.php repro.pem 
Input file: /home/sebastian/Documents/php_gdb/bin/repro.pem
1663 bytes read.
resource(6) of type (OpenSSL key)
=================================================================
==32018==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: negative-size-param: (size=-1)
    #0 0xf71fab04 in __asan_memcpy (/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libasan.so.2+0x8ab04)
    #1 0xf71fac2f in memcpy (/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libasan.so.2+0x8ac2f)
    #2 0x8cdacb6 in zend_string_init /home/sebastian/Documents/php-7.1.5/Zend/zend_string.h:160
    #3 0x8cdacb6 in add_next_index_stringl /home/sebastian/Documents/php-7.1.5/Zend/zend_API.c:1554
    #4 0x81627d2 in zif_openssl_seal /home/sebastian/Documents/php-7.1.5/ext/openssl/openssl.c:5932
    #5 0x8e7a9b5 in ZEND_DO_ICALL_SPEC_RETVAL_UNUSED_HANDLER /home/sebastian/Documents/php-7.1.5/Zend/zend_vm_execute.h:628
    #6 0x8e74c59 in execute_ex /home/sebastian/Documents/php-7.1.5/Zend/zend_vm_execute.h:429
    #7 0x8e766ef in zend_execute /home/sebastian/Documents/php-7.1.5/Zend/zend_vm_execute.h:474
    #8 0x8cc60bd in zend_execute_scripts /home/sebastian/Documents/php-7.1.5/Zend/zend.c:1476
    #9 0x8b0c6c3 in php_execute_script /home/sebastian/Documents/php-7.1.5/main/main.c:2537
    #10 0x920a0bc in do_cli /home/sebastian/Documents/php-7.1.5/sapi/cli/php_cli.c:993
    #11 0x920cbef in main /home/sebastian/Documents/php-7.1.5/sapi/cli/php_cli.c:1381
    #12 0xf6a89636 in __libc_start_main (/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6+0x18636)
    #13 0x806a970  (/home/sebastian/Documents/php_gdb/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu-php+0x806a970)

AddressSanitizer can not describe address in more detail (wild memory access suspected).
SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: negative-size-param ??:0 __asan_memcpy
==32018==ABORTING

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 [2017-05-29 08:51 UTC] l dot wei at ntu dot edu dot sg 
The bug is due to mistakes in both OpenSSL and PHP:

1) OpenSSL 1.1.0e failed to document correct behavior of the EVP_SealInit() function:

EVP_SealInit() may return -1 when one of the keys has a negative length:

https://github.com/openssl/openssl/blob/9bb6f82958537b9ab5ec8fe44c762f448d4a59d8/crypto/evp/p_seal.c

41    for (i = 0; i < npubk; i++) {
42        ekl[i] =
43            EVP_PKEY_encrypt_old(ek[i], key, EVP_CIPHER_CTX_key_length(ctx),
44                                 pubk[i]);
45        if (ekl[i] <= 0)
46            return (-1);
47    }
48    return (npubk);

However the official documentation for EVP_SealInit() did not mention -1 as a return value on certain error conditions:
https://www.openssl.org/docs/man1.1.0/crypto/EVP_SealInit.html

2) PHP did not handle -1 as a return value of EVP_SealInit(), and failed to validate whether eksl[i] holds a proper length:

In php-7.1.5/ext/openssl/openssl.c:

5930		for (i=0; i<nkeys; i++) {
5931			eks[i][eksl[i]] = '\0';
5932			add_next_index_stringl(ekeys, (const char*)eks[i], eksl[i]);
5933			efree(eks[i]);
5934			eks[i] = NULL;
5935		}

The eksl[0] as -1, when passed to add_next_index_stringl(), will trigger the wild memcpy.

A quick fix would be adding checks for both the return value of EVP_SealInit(), and values of eksl[i].
 [2017-06-19 23:35 UTC] stas@php.net
-PHP Version: 7.1.5 +PHP Version: 5.6.30 -CVE-ID: +CVE-ID: needed
 [2017-06-19 23:35 UTC] stas@php.net 
Could you please put repro.pem somewhere where it could be downloaded? It could help a lot for testing.
 [2017-06-20 04:14 UTC] l dot wei at ntu dot edu dot sg 
The repro.pem can be produced with "xxd -r" with the pasted hex dump. Nevertheless, the binary version can also be downloaded here:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B0z1y8aj8u0OS1VGMUVmeWVLR0k?usp=sharing
 [2017-06-20 05:22 UTC] l dot wei at ntu dot edu dot sg 
7.1.6 has some of the code refactored, but the issue can still be reproduced with the same repro.pem: 

$ file i686-pc-linux-gnu-php
i686-pc-linux-gnu-php: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib/ld-linux.so.2, for GNU/Linux 2.6.32, BuildID[sha1]=11d98fe76ed6c0e8adbd5b6547307e410dec8a65, not stripped

$ ./i686-pc-linux-gnu-php openSSLharn.php repro.pem
Input file: /home/sebastian/Documents/php-7.1.6_ASAN/bin/repro.pem
1663 bytes read.
resource(6) of type (OpenSSL key)
Array
(
    [bits] => 1024
    [key] => -----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----
MIGfMA0GCSqGSIb3DQEBAQUAA4GNADCBiQKBgQCk2PtdfPxPwVwshakGeI9iibdB
xPpPu7TFE8eq2rOPmhugFikMl7l3fnj/LSAlOmIu3z59Os+BZedsebek4eBfNNxf
oCtqeLQYNTT/EOLhWQJEZxJipfawmlwPMBuYr1QMy3fF/87UHwAlqfdF87QGbejN
MQ/OIsySayJivlv8vgIDAQAB
-----END PUBLIC KEY-----

    [rsa] => Array
        (
            [n] => ���]|�O�\,��x�b��A��O���Ǫڳ���)
                                                     ��w~x�- %:b.�>}:ρe�ly����_4�_�+jx�54���YDgb����\0��T
                                                                                                              �w����%��E��m��1�"̒k"b�[��
            [e] => 
        )

    [type] => 0
)

=================================================================
==8088==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: negative-size-param: (size=-1)
    #0 0xf72d3b04 in __asan_memcpy (/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libasan.so.2+0x8ab04)
    #1 0xf72d3c2f in memcpy (/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libasan.so.2+0x8ac2f)
    #2 0x976a280 in memcpy /usr/include/i386-linux-gnu/bits/string3.h:53
    #3 0x976a280 in zend_string_init /home/sebastian/Downloads/php-src-PHP-7.1.6/Zend/zend_string.h:160
    #4 0x976a280 in add_next_index_stringl /home/sebastian/Downloads/php-src-PHP-7.1.6/Zend/zend_API.c:1554
    #5 0x8218809 in zif_openssl_seal /home/sebastian/Downloads/php-src-PHP-7.1.6/ext/openssl/openssl.c:5934
    #6 0x9aa425e in ZEND_DO_ICALL_SPEC_RETVAL_UNUSED_HANDLER /home/sebastian/Downloads/php-src-PHP-7.1.6/Zend/zend_vm_execute.h:628
    #7 0x9db42e5 in execute_ex /home/sebastian/Downloads/php-src-PHP-7.1.6/Zend/zend_vm_execute.h:429
    #8 0x9eaaae8 in zend_execute /home/sebastian/Downloads/php-src-PHP-7.1.6/Zend/zend_vm_execute.h:474
    #9 0x975084c in zend_execute_scripts /home/sebastian/Downloads/php-src-PHP-7.1.6/Zend/zend.c:1476
    #10 0x94806ab in php_execute_script /home/sebastian/Downloads/php-src-PHP-7.1.6/main/main.c:2537
    #11 0x9eb8b37 in do_cli /home/sebastian/Downloads/php-src-PHP-7.1.6/sapi/cli/php_cli.c:993
    #12 0x80a863b in main /home/sebastian/Downloads/php-src-PHP-7.1.6/sapi/cli/php_cli.c:1381
    #13 0xf6b62636 in __libc_start_main (/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6+0x18636)
    #14 0x80a8d0a  (/home/sebastian/Documents/php-7.1.6_ASAN/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu-php+0x80a8d0a)

AddressSanitizer can not describe address in more detail (wild memory access suspected).
SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: negative-size-param ??:0 __asan_memcpy
==8088==ABORTING
 [2017-06-20 05:30 UTC] stas@php.net
-PHP Version: 5.6.30 +PHP Version: 7.0.21
 [2017-06-20 05:30 UTC] stas@php.net 
Looks like 5.x is immune to this because -1 is converted to uint, which gives string that is too long, so it produces "string overflow" fatal error. Since it's not security issue in 5.x, fix is going to be in 7.x
 [2017-06-20 06:10 UTC] stas@php.net 
The fix is in security repo as 9348d49a6277f1efd42af1c7debfe68928943e92 and in https://gist.github.com/df2b2f212b9fcf008cb826ccf17221a0

Please verify that it works. I think we still may need fix for 5.x because of this:

eks[i][eksl[i]] = '\0';

this may lead to memory corruption if eksl[i] is -1.
 [2017-06-20 06:17 UTC] stas@php.net
-Assigned To: +Assigned To: stas
 [2017-06-20 09:23 UTC] l dot wei at ntu dot edu dot sg 
The fix looks correct, we tested on 7.1.6 32-bit build, the patch has fixed the issue.

In both 5.x and 7.x, the negative indexing is another issue other than the wild memcpy(), but may not always result in an observable heap header corruption.

We also tested it on PHP 5.6.25 on a Windows wamp server setting, the crash reproduces, so very likely it affects recent releases of 5.x as well.
 [2017-07-05 04:13 UTC] stas@php.net 
Automatic comment on behalf of stas
Revision: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=89637c6b41b510c20d262c17483f582f115c66d6
Log: Fix bug #74651 - check EVP_SealInit as it can return -1
 [2017-07-05 04:13 UTC] stas@php.net
-Status: Assigned +Status: Closed
 [2017-07-05 04:23 UTC] stas@php.net 
Automatic comment on behalf of stas
Revision: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=73cabfedf519298e1a11192699f44d53c529315e
Log: Fix bug #74651 - check EVP_SealInit as it can return -1
 [2017-07-05 04:23 UTC] stas@php.net 
Automatic comment on behalf of stas
Revision: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=89637c6b41b510c20d262c17483f582f115c66d6
Log: Fix bug #74651 - check EVP_SealInit as it can return -1
 [2017-07-06 07:25 UTC] krakjoe@php.net 
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Revision: http://git.php.net/?p=php-src.git;a=commit;h=91826a311dd37f4c4e5d605fa7af331e80ddd4c3
Log: Fix bug #74651 - check EVP_SealInit as it can return -1
 [2017-07-20 15:01 UTC] vixtor at gmail dot com 
Hello,

I am encountering an issue which might be related to this. Before 5.6.31, I had a working code (a simplified example of the code is below).

#!/usr/bin/php
<?php
$x509FilePath="certificate.pem";
$publicKey = openssl_pkey_get_public("file://{$x509FilePath}");
echo "loading public key";
echo "\nkey="; print_r(openssl_pkey_get_details($publicKey));
echo "\nerror=" . openssl_error_string();
echo "\n-----------\n";

$srcData = "this is my secret message";
$publicKeys     = array($publicKey);
$encData        = null;
$envKeys        = null;
$result         = openssl_seal($srcData, $encData, $envKeys, $publicKeys);
echo "encrypting";
echo "\nsrcData=" . $srcData;
echo "\nerror=" . openssl_error_string();
echo "\nresult="; print_r($result);
echo "\npkeys="; print_r($publicKeys);
echo "\nenvkeys="; print_r($envKeys);
echo "\nencdata=". $encData;
echo "\n-----------\n";
if($result === false) {
	$outEncData       = null;
	$outEnvKey        = null;
	$errorMessage = "Error while encrypting data! Reason:";
	while(($errorString = openssl_error_string())) {
		$errorMessage .= $errorString . "\n";
	}
        die("$errorMessage\n");
}

$outEncData       = base64_encode($encData);
$outEnvKey        = base64_encode($envKeys[0]);
?>

Before 5.6.31 this code was producing an output like:

loading public key
key=Array
(
    [bits] => 2048
    [key] => -----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----
MIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEAn8UR9G5trj9vRebEUqmW
5gGmA1lSIv6Lcy7XvOasKDqjXPJAJ+HkpDQz7dfVY/qBUQPyWMnZBCFRzh1lMmhX
nl5bqjAHKBNoqYzN6ZPG4osgxj07LdrNLkVnTYXnPJ+r7fifSe/m/h5B0uLrhhOW
4b3fDaj37crhDFwgMHTj51CiOfy+i6aSG5Xr0Dj3pB6FGXrMF3LCQyzkgwlkopUx
hpnwj5jMlWUGVzRid5eI9dcqLtxF/xb5uApsn8lPaPq5mpYj9SgC4DflpH8HeJqA
Rh64jiLEh4LOBga3QbW9hMJ1DF5RYAXH34GrHaXnjrnu4k4xfY33cqXTms9QqDO0
XwIDAQAB
-----END PUBLIC KEY-----

    [rsa] => Array
        (
�����       [n] => ���nm�?oE��R����YR"��s.׼��(:�\�@'���43���c��Q�X��!Q�e2hW�^[�0(h�������� �=;-��.EgM��<�����I���A��������
     \ 0t��P�9��������8���z�r�C,��	d��1�����̕eW4bw����*.�E���
l��Oh����#�(�7��x��F��"��A����u
                                     ^Q`�߁��玹��N1}��r�Ӛ�P�3�_
            [e] => 
        )

    [type] => 0
)

error=
-----------
encrypting
srcData=this is my secret message
error=
result=25
pkeys=Array
(
    [0] => Resource id #4
)

envkeys=Array
(
    [0] => n�Q��SOqʻHxA�3����
                              �V���H���Gp�	}Ѵ6�i*����V��Su5	bUb�� ���0�CI����e��_V(��<�l��WY
#�K��7��%                                                                                                 �"r���6��.\�9���i�h�/m���8W��k�V���� 2.x�}�8�:�<lp�ܟ��EoI5#�w�)�	s^}�͂�g����1E�Tf����7h�1
         �L��J�9&�/NWt3x
9>��IR4�D� nŠw���,�������ѯ
)

encdata=�ld	:.d�4ax~c꥘ڝ�בZ2�
-----------

On 5.6.31, the openssl_seal doesn't work anymore:

loading public key
key=Array
(
    [bits] => 2048
    [key] => -----BEGIN PUBLIC KEY-----
MIIBIjANBgkqhkiG9w0BAQEFAAOCAQ8AMIIBCgKCAQEAn8UR9G5trj9vRebEUqmW
5gGmA1lSIv6Lcy7XvOasKDqjXPJAJ+HkpDQz7dfVY/qBUQPyWMnZBCFRzh1lMmhX
nl5bqjAHKBNoqYzN6ZPG4osgxj07LdrNLkVnTYXnPJ+r7fifSe/m/h5B0uLrhhOW
4b3fDaj37crhDFwgMHTj51CiOfy+i6aSG5Xr0Dj3pB6FGXrMF3LCQyzkgwlkopUx
hpnwj5jMlWUGVzRid5eI9dcqLtxF/xb5uApsn8lPaPq5mpYj9SgC4DflpH8HeJqA
Rh64jiLEh4LOBga3QbW9hMJ1DF5RYAXH34GrHaXnjrnu4k4xfY33cqXTms9QqDO0
XwIDAQAB
-----END PUBLIC KEY-----

    [rsa] => Array
        (
�����       [n] => ���nm�?oE��R����YR"��s.׼��(:�\�@'���43���c��Q�X��!Q�e2hW�^[�0(h�������� �=;-��.EgM��<�����I���A��������
     \ 0t��P�9��������8���z�r�C,��	d��1�����̕eW4bw����*.�E���
l��Oh����#�(�7��x��F��"��A����u
                                     ^Q`�߁��玹��N1}��r�Ӛ�P�3�_
            [e] => 
        )

    [type] => 0
)

error=
-----------
encrypting
srcData=this is my secret message
error=
result=
pkeys=Array
(
    [0] => Resource id #4
)

envkeys=
encdata=
-----------
Error while encrypting data! Reason:
 [2018-01-15 12:18 UTC] kaplan@php.net
-CVE-ID: needed +CVE-ID: 2017-11144
 
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