From 8756b68edae37ff546c02091989a4ceab3f20abd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Massimiliano Pellizzer Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2026 17:08:25 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] apparmor: fix side-effect bug in match_char() macro usage The match_char() macro evaluates its character parameter multiple times when traversing differential encoding chains. When invoked with *str++, the string pointer advances on each iteration of the inner do-while loop, causing the DFA to check different characters at each iteration and therefore skip input characters. This results in out-of-bounds reads when the pointer advances past the input buffer boundary. [ 94.984676] ================================================================== [ 94.985301] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in aa_dfa_match+0x5ae/0x760 [ 94.985655] Read of size 1 at addr ffff888100342000 by task file/976 [ 94.986319] CPU: 7 UID: 1000 PID: 976 Comm: file Not tainted 6.19.0-rc7-next-20260127 #1 PREEMPT(lazy) [ 94.986322] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009), BIOS 1.16.3-debian-1.16.3-2 04/01/2014 [ 94.986329] Call Trace: [ 94.986341] [ 94.986347] dump_stack_lvl+0x5e/0x80 [ 94.986374] print_report+0xc8/0x270 [ 94.986384] ? aa_dfa_match+0x5ae/0x760 [ 94.986388] kasan_report+0x118/0x150 [ 94.986401] ? aa_dfa_match+0x5ae/0x760 [ 94.986405] aa_dfa_match+0x5ae/0x760 [ 94.986408] __aa_path_perm+0x131/0x400 [ 94.986418] aa_path_perm+0x219/0x2f0 [ 94.986424] apparmor_file_open+0x345/0x570 [ 94.986431] security_file_open+0x5c/0x140 [ 94.986442] do_dentry_open+0x2f6/0x1120 [ 94.986450] vfs_open+0x38/0x2b0 [ 94.986453] ? may_open+0x1e2/0x2b0 [ 94.986466] path_openat+0x231b/0x2b30 [ 94.986469] ? __x64_sys_openat+0xf8/0x130 [ 94.986477] do_file_open+0x19d/0x360 [ 94.986487] do_sys_openat2+0x98/0x100 [ 94.986491] __x64_sys_openat+0xf8/0x130 [ 94.986499] do_syscall_64+0x8e/0x660 [ 94.986515] ? count_memcg_events+0x15f/0x3c0 [ 94.986526] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 [ 94.986540] ? handle_mm_fault+0x1639/0x1ef0 [ 94.986551] ? vma_start_read+0xf0/0x320 [ 94.986558] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 [ 94.986561] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 [ 94.986563] ? fpregs_assert_state_consistent+0x50/0xe0 [ 94.986572] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 [ 94.986574] ? arch_exit_to_user_mode_prepare+0x9/0xb0 [ 94.986587] ? srso_alias_return_thunk+0x5/0xfbef5 [ 94.986588] ? irqentry_exit+0x3c/0x590 [ 94.986595] entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x76/0x7e [ 94.986597] RIP: 0033:0x7fda4a79c3ea Fix by extracting the character value before invoking match_char, ensuring single evaluation per outer loop. Fixes: 074c1cd798cb ("apparmor: dfa move character match into a macro") Reported-by: Qualys Security Advisory Tested-by: Salvatore Bonaccorso Reviewed-by: Georgia Garcia Reviewed-by: Cengiz Can Signed-off-by: Massimiliano Pellizzer Signed-off-by: John Johansen --- security/apparmor/match.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/security/apparmor/match.c b/security/apparmor/match.c index 8fa0a1494acd..30c46b119869 100644 --- a/security/apparmor/match.c +++ b/security/apparmor/match.c @@ -463,13 +463,18 @@ aa_state_t aa_dfa_match_len(struct aa_dfa *dfa, aa_state_t start, if (dfa->tables[YYTD_ID_EC]) { /* Equivalence class table defined */ u8 *equiv = EQUIV_TABLE(dfa); - for (; len; len--) - match_char(state, def, base, next, check, - equiv[(u8) *str++]); + for (; len; len--) { + u8 c = equiv[(u8) *str]; + + match_char(state, def, base, next, check, c); + str++; + } } else { /* default is direct to next state */ - for (; len; len--) - match_char(state, def, base, next, check, (u8) *str++); + for (; len; len--) { + match_char(state, def, base, next, check, (u8) *str); + str++; + } } return state; @@ -503,13 +508,18 @@ aa_state_t aa_dfa_match(struct aa_dfa *dfa, aa_state_t start, const char *str) /* Equivalence class table defined */ u8 *equiv = EQUIV_TABLE(dfa); /* default is direct to next state */ - while (*str) - match_char(state, def, base, next, check, - equiv[(u8) *str++]); + while (*str) { + u8 c = equiv[(u8) *str]; + + match_char(state, def, base, next, check, c); + str++; + } } else { /* default is direct to next state */ - while (*str) - match_char(state, def, base, next, check, (u8) *str++); + while (*str) { + match_char(state, def, base, next, check, (u8) *str); + str++; + } } return state;