[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 |
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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