[PATCH v2 1/2] selinux: reject a permission value exceeding the class permission count

Bryam Vargas via B4 Relay <[email protected]> Mon, 27 Jul 2026 20:30:58 -0500
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.selinux,org.kernel.feeds.b4-sent,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
From: Bryam Vargas <[email protected]>

perm_read() bounds a permission value by SEL_VEC_MAX but never by the
nprim of the owning class or common, which is taken verbatim from the
policy image.  security_get_permissions() then writes perms[value - 1]
into an nprim-sized kcalloc() array, so a class declaring fewer
permissions than its largest permission value drives an out-of-bounds
heap write.  The top-level symbol tables are validated this way; the
nested per-class permission table is not.

Reject a permission whose value exceeds nprim, which is already set when
perm_read() runs.  Well-formed policies are unaffected.

Fixes: 55fcf09b3fe4 ("selinux: add support for querying object classes and permissions from the running policy")
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Bryam Vargas <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <[email protected]>
---
 security/selinux/ss/policydb.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/security/selinux/ss/policydb.c b/security/selinux/ss/policydb.c
index ead504a639e3..6973b68d9782 100644
--- a/security/selinux/ss/policydb.c
+++ b/security/selinux/ss/policydb.c
@@ -1175,6 +1175,9 @@ static int perm_read(struct policydb *p, struct symtab *s, struct policy_file *f
 	rc = -EINVAL;
 	if (perdatum->value < 1 || perdatum->value > SEL_VEC_MAX)
 		goto bad;
+	/* the value indexes an nprim-sized array in security_get_permissions() */
+	if (perdatum->value > s->nprim)
+		goto bad;
 
 	rc = str_read(&key, GFP_KERNEL, fp, len);
 	if (rc)

-- 
2.55.0