From: Gu Bowen <gubowen5@huawei.com>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>, Ignat Korchagin <ignat@linux.win>,
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: <keyrings@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org>,
<kexec@lists.infradead.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
<stable@vger.kernel.org>, <lujialin4@huawei.com>
Subject: [PATCH -next] crypto: asymmetric_keys: verify_pefile: fix integer underflow in pefile_strip_sig_wrapper
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2026 15:49:34 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261102074934.2925339-1-gubowen5@huawei.com> (raw)
The pefile_strip_sig_wrapper() function validates the win_certificate
wrapper that precedes the PKCS#7 signature in a PE binary. It checks
that the wrapper length does not exceed the certificate table size
(``wrapper.length > ctx->sig_len``) but fails to verify that the
wrapper length is at least ``sizeof(struct win_certificate)`` (8 bytes).
When a crafted PE image supplies a wrapper with ``length`` in the range
[1, 7], the subsequent arithmetic::
ctx->sig_len = wrapper.length; /* e.g. 1 */
ctx->sig_offset += sizeof(wrapper);
ctx->sig_len -= sizeof(wrapper); /* 1 - 8 = 0xFFFFFFF9 (unsigned) */
underflows the unsigned ``ctx->sig_len`` to a value near UINT_MAX. The
following ``sig_len < 4`` sanity check is bypassed because 0xFFFFFFF9 is
greater than 4.
The underflowed ``sig_len`` is then passed to verify_pkcs7_signature()
and onwards to asn1_ber_decoder(). The ASN.1 decoder's own
``datalen > 65535`` entry guard can be satisfied by constructing a
PKCS#7 length field of exactly 65535 (e.g. ``30 82 ff fb``), allowing
the decoder to proceed and attempt to read OID octets beyond the
allocated vmalloc buffer, triggering a page fault in look_up_OID()::
BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffffd1e986cb2000
#PF: supervisor read access in kernel mode
RIP: 0010:look_up_OID+0x14/0x100
Call Trace:
pkcs7_note_OID+0x33/0xa0
asn1_ber_decoder+0x363/0xbd0
pkcs7_parse_message+0xd9/0x1b0
verify_pkcs7_signature+0x24/0x80
verify_pefile_signature+0x7b/0xf0
kexec_kernel_verify_pe_sig+0x1b/0x40
kimage_file_alloc_init+0x1d8/0x3f0
__se_sys_kexec_file_load+0xc6/0x270
This is reachable through the kexec_file_load syscall on architectures
that verify PE signatures (x86 bzImage with
CONFIG_KEXEC_BZIMAGE_VERIFY_SIG, arm64 Image with
CONFIG_KEXEC_IMAGE_VERIFY_SIG), requiring CAP_SYS_BOOT.
The oops occurs while the caller holds kexec_lock; if the faulting task
is killed, the lock is never released, leaving all subsequent kexec and
kdump operations permanently returning -EBUSY until reboot.
Add a lower-bound check on wrapper.length before the subtraction to
prevent the underflow.
Fixes: 09dacbbda935 ("pefile: Strip the wrapper off of the cert data block")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Gu Bowen <gubowen5@huawei.com>
---
crypto/asymmetric_keys/verify_pefile.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/crypto/asymmetric_keys/verify_pefile.c b/crypto/asymmetric_keys/verify_pefile.c
index cec99db14129..cfa85ccb1cf7 100644
--- a/crypto/asymmetric_keys/verify_pefile.c
+++ b/crypto/asymmetric_keys/verify_pefile.c
@@ -146,6 +146,11 @@ static int pefile_strip_sig_wrapper(const void *pebuf,
ctx->sig_len, wrapper.length);
return -ELIBBAD;
}
+ if (wrapper.length < sizeof(wrapper)) {
+ pr_warn("Signature wrapper too small (%x < %zx)\n",
+ wrapper.length, sizeof(wrapper));
+ return -ELIBBAD;
+ }
if (wrapper.revision != WIN_CERT_REVISION_2_0) {
pr_warn("Signature is not revision 2.0\n");
return -ENOTSUPP;
--
2.43.0
next reply other threads:[~2026-11-02 7:32 UTC|newest]
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2026-11-02 7:49 Gu Bowen [this message]
2026-11-02 20:49 ` Ignat Korchagin
2026-11-03 2:39 ` Gu Bowen
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