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Kees Cook 1fe82bfd9e exec: Force single empty string when argv is empty
commit dcd46d897adb70d63e025f175a00a89797d31a43 upstream.

Quoting[1] Ariadne Conill:

"In several other operating systems, it is a hard requirement that the
second argument to execve(2) be the name of a program, thus prohibiting
a scenario where argc < 1. POSIX 2017 also recommends this behaviour,
but it is not an explicit requirement[2]:

    The argument arg0 should point to a filename string that is
    associated with the process being started by one of the exec
    functions.
...
Interestingly, Michael Kerrisk opened an issue about this in 2008[3],
but there was no consensus to support fixing this issue then.
Hopefully now that CVE-2021-4034 shows practical exploitative use[4]
of this bug in a shellcode, we can reconsider.

This issue is being tracked in the KSPP issue tracker[5]."

While the initial code searches[6][7] turned up what appeared to be
mostly corner case tests, trying to that just reject argv == NULL
(or an immediately terminated pointer list) quickly started tripping[8]
existing userspace programs.

The next best approach is forcing a single empty string into argv and
adjusting argc to match. The number of programs depending on argc == 0
seems a smaller set than those calling execve with a NULL argv.

Account for the additional stack space in bprm_stack_limits(). Inject an
empty string when argc == 0 (and set argc = 1). Warn about the case so
userspace has some notice about the change:

    process './argc0' launched './argc0' with NULL argv: empty string added

Additionally WARN() and reject NULL argv usage for kernel threads.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220127000724.15106-1-ariadne@dereferenced.org/
[2] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/exec.html
[3] https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8408
[4] https://www.qualys.com/2022/01/25/cve-2021-4034/pwnkit.txt
[5] https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/176
[6] https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=execve%5C+*%5C%28%5B%5E%2C%5D%2B%2C+*NULL&literal=0
[7] https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=execlp%3F%5Cs*%5C%28%5B%5E%2C%5D%2B%2C%5Cs*NULL&literal=0
[8] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220131144352.GE16385@xsang-OptiPlex-9020/

Reported-by: Ariadne Conill <ariadne@dereferenced.org>
Reported-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Cc: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Acked-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Ariadne Conill <ariadne@dereferenced.org>
Acked-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220201000947.2453721-1-keescook@chromium.org
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Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2022-06-06 08:33:50 +02:00
arch x86/pci/xen: Disable PCI/MSI[-X] masking for XEN_HVM guests 2022-06-06 08:33:48 +02:00
block block: return ELEVATOR_DISCARD_MERGE if possible 2022-05-25 09:14:38 +02:00
certs certs: Trigger creation of RSA module signing key if it's not an RSA key 2021-09-15 09:47:29 +02:00
crypto crypto: authenc - Fix sleep in atomic context in decrypt_tail 2022-04-15 14:18:04 +02:00
Documentation Reinstate some of "swiotlb: rework "fix info leak with DMA_FROM_DEVICE"" 2022-05-25 09:14:38 +02:00
drivers drm/i915: Fix -Wstringop-overflow warning in call to intel_read_wm_latency() 2022-06-06 08:33:50 +02:00
fs exec: Force single empty string when argv is empty 2022-06-06 08:33:50 +02:00
include secure_seq: use the 64 bits of the siphash for port offset calculation 2022-06-06 08:33:49 +02:00
init init/main.c: return 1 from handled __setup() functions 2022-04-15 14:18:35 +02:00
ipc shm: extend forced shm destroy to support objects from several IPC nses 2021-12-01 09:23:35 +01:00
kernel lockdown: also lock down previous kgdb use 2022-06-06 08:33:48 +02:00
lib assoc_array: Fix BUG_ON during garbage collect 2022-06-06 08:33:50 +02:00
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mm mm: userfaultfd: fix missing cache flush in mcopy_atomic_pte() and __mcopy_atomic() 2022-05-15 19:54:47 +02:00
net cfg80211: set custom regdomain after wiphy registration 2022-06-06 08:33:50 +02:00
samples samples/kretprobes: Fix return value if register_kretprobe() failed 2021-11-17 09:48:39 +01:00
scripts gcc-plugins: latent_entropy: use /dev/urandom 2022-04-20 09:19:38 +02:00
security lockdown: also lock down previous kgdb use 2022-06-06 08:33:48 +02:00
sound ALSA: wavefront: Proper check of get_user() error 2022-05-25 09:14:34 +02:00
tools x86/xen: Mark cpu_bringup_and_idle() as dead_end_function 2022-05-25 09:14:38 +02:00
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virt KVM: Prevent module exit until all VMs are freed 2022-04-15 14:18:27 +02:00
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