[Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/libkrb5: fix CVE-2021-37750

Fabrice Fontaine fontaine.fabrice at gmail.com
Wed Sep 15 19:48:19 UTC 2021


The Key Distribution Center (KDC) in MIT Kerberos 5 (aka krb5) before
1.18.5 and 1.19.x before 1.19.3 has a NULL pointer dereference in
kdc/do_tgs_req.c via a FAST inner body that lacks a server field.

Signed-off-by: Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice at gmail.com>
---
 ...-deref-on-TGS-inner-body-null-server.patch | 47 +++++++++++++++++++
 package/libkrb5/libkrb5.mk                    |  3 ++
 2 files changed, 50 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 package/libkrb5/0001-Fix-KDC-null-deref-on-TGS-inner-body-null-server.patch

diff --git a/package/libkrb5/0001-Fix-KDC-null-deref-on-TGS-inner-body-null-server.patch b/package/libkrb5/0001-Fix-KDC-null-deref-on-TGS-inner-body-null-server.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ec6f623380
--- /dev/null
+++ b/package/libkrb5/0001-Fix-KDC-null-deref-on-TGS-inner-body-null-server.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+From d775c95af7606a51bf79547a94fa52ddd1cb7f49 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Greg Hudson <ghudson at mit.edu>
+Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2021 01:15:27 -0400
+Subject: [PATCH] Fix KDC null deref on TGS inner body null server
+
+After the KDC decodes a FAST inner body, it does not check for a null
+server.  Prior to commit 39548a5b17bbda9eeb63625a201cfd19b9de1c5b this
+would typically result in an error from krb5_unparse_name(), but with
+the addition of get_local_tgt() it results in a null dereference.  Add
+a null check.
+
+Reported by Joseph Sutton of Catalyst.
+
+CVE-2021-37750:
+
+In MIT krb5 releases 1.14 and later, an authenticated attacker can
+cause a null dereference in the KDC by sending a FAST TGS request with
+no server field.
+
+ticket: 9008 (new)
+tags: pullup
+target_version: 1.19-next
+target_version: 1.18-next
+
+[Retrieved from:
+https://github.com/krb5/krb5/commit/d775c95af7606a51bf79547a94fa52ddd1cb7f49]
+Signed-off-by: Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice at gmail.com>
+---
+ src/kdc/do_tgs_req.c | 5 +++++
+ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
+
+diff --git a/src/kdc/do_tgs_req.c b/src/kdc/do_tgs_req.c
+index 582e497cc9..32dc65fa8e 100644
+--- a/src/kdc/do_tgs_req.c
++++ b/src/kdc/do_tgs_req.c
+@@ -204,6 +204,11 @@ process_tgs_req(krb5_kdc_req *request, krb5_data *pkt,
+         status = "FIND_FAST";
+         goto cleanup;
+     }
++    if (sprinc == NULL) {
++        status = "NULL_SERVER";
++        errcode = KRB5KDC_ERR_S_PRINCIPAL_UNKNOWN;
++        goto cleanup;
++    }
+ 
+     errcode = get_local_tgt(kdc_context, &sprinc->realm, header_server,
+                             &local_tgt, &local_tgt_storage, &local_tgt_key);
diff --git a/package/libkrb5/libkrb5.mk b/package/libkrb5/libkrb5.mk
index 89f219d913..d41e7559a5 100644
--- a/package/libkrb5/libkrb5.mk
+++ b/package/libkrb5/libkrb5.mk
@@ -16,6 +16,9 @@ LIBKRB5_CPE_ID_PRODUCT = kerberos_5
 LIBKRB5_DEPENDENCIES = host-bison $(TARGET_NLS_DEPENDENCIES)
 LIBKRB5_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
 
+# 0001-Fix-KDC-null-deref-on-TGS-inner-body-null-server.patch
+LIBKRB5_IGNORE_CVES += CVE-2021-37750
+
 # The configure script uses AC_TRY_RUN tests to check for those values,
 # which doesn't work in a cross-compilation scenario. Therefore,
 # we feed the configure script with the correct answer for those tests
-- 
2.33.0



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