SECURITY: Avoid decrement of dkim_collect_input if already at 0

Credits: Qualys

    5/ receive_msg() calls dkim_exim_verify_finish(), which sets
    dkim_collect_input to 0 and calls pdkim_feed_finish(), which calls
    pdkim_header_complete(), which decreases dkim_collect_input to UINT_MAX,
    which reactivates the DKIM code.

    As a result, pdkim_feed() is called again (through receive_getc at the
    end of receive_msg()), but functions like pdkim_finish_bodyhash() and
    exim_sha_finish() have already been called (in pdkim_feed_finish()).
    This suggests a use-after-free.

    But it seems that a use-after-free would happen only with
    EVP_DigestFinal() (in exim_sha_finish()), which does not seem to be
    reachable via DKIM (no SHA3). But we checked OpenSSL only, not GnuTLS.

    Here is a proof of concept that triggers the bug (which came very close
    to a security vulnerability):

    (sleep 10; echo 'EHLO test'; sleep 3; echo 'MAIL FROM:<>'; sleep 3; echo 'RCPT TO:postmaster'; sleep 3; echo 'BDAT 42 LAST'; date >&2; sleep 30; printf 'not a valid header line\r\nDKIM-Signature:\r\nXXX'; sleep 30) | nc -n -v 192.168.56.102 25

    (gdb) print &dkim_collect_input
    $2 = (unsigned int *) 0x55e180386d90 <dkim_collect_input>
    (gdb) watch *(unsigned int *) 0x55e180386d90

    Hardware watchpoint 1: *(unsigned int *) 0x55e180386d90
    Old value = 0
    New value = 4294967295
    #0  0x000055e18031f805 in pdkim_header_complete (ctx=ctx@entry=0x55e181b9e8e0) at pdkim.c:1006
    #1  0x000055e18032106c in pdkim_feed_finish (ctx=0x55e181b9e8e0, return_signatures=0x55e180386d78 <dkim_signatures>, err=err@entry=0x7ffe443e1d00) at pdkim.c:1490
    #2  0x000055e1802a3280 in dkim_exim_verify_finish () at dkim.c:328
    #3  0x000055e1802c9d1d in receive_msg (extract_recip=extract_recip@entry=0) at receive.c:3409

(cherry picked from commit e3674091056ac05eb7ef1c504accce790c434bd7)
(cherry picked from commit 8b39dd074e3ec70cbda70a52cef5b71ecbf69499)

diff --git a/src/src/pdkim/pdkim.c b/src/src/pdkim/pdkim.c
index ca16e2b74958f1728bc8e9a48c26fa6798f69263..b4301b5f79798861768fb65fcc6d222b269ebe16 100644 (file)
--- a/src/src/pdkim/pdkim.c
+++ b/src/src/pdkim/pdkim.c
@@ -1003,7 +1003,7 @@ else
       last_sig->next = sig;
       }
 
       last_sig->next = sig;
       }
 

-    if (--dkim_collect_input == 0)
+    if (dkim_collect_input && --dkim_collect_input == 0)

       {
       ctx->headers = pdkim_prepend_stringlist(ctx->headers, ctx->cur_header->s);
       ctx->cur_header->s[ctx->cur_header->ptr = 0] = '\0';
       {
       ctx->headers = pdkim_prepend_stringlist(ctx->headers, ctx->cur_header->s);
       ctx->cur_header->s[ctx->cur_header->ptr = 0] = '\0';