sysdeps-unix: On MSG_CTRUNC, close the fds we did receive

MSG_CTRUNC indicates that we have received fewer fds that we should
have done because the buffer was too small, but we were treating it
as though it indicated that we received *no* fds. If we received any,
we still have to make sure we close them, otherwise they will be leaked.

On the system bus, if an attacker can induce us to leak fds in this
way, that's a local denial of service via resource exhaustion.

Reported-by: Kevin Backhouse, GitHub Security Lab
Fixes: dbus#294
Fixes: CVE-2020-12049
Fixes: GHSL-2020-057

diff --git a/dbus/dbus-sysdeps-unix.c b/dbus/dbus-sysdeps-unix.c
index e8cd5b334a443079bab28a2486ee2d1194fa6e24..f9dc2a6e52a589fb6412454b266a481e88eecdb8 100644 (file)
--- a/dbus/dbus-sysdeps-unix.c
+++ b/dbus/dbus-sysdeps-unix.c
@@ -435,18 +435,6 @@ _dbus_read_socket_with_unix_fds (DBusSocket        fd,
       struct cmsghdr *cm;
       dbus_bool_t found = FALSE;
 
-      if (m.msg_flags & MSG_CTRUNC)
-        {
-          /* Hmm, apparently the control data was truncated. The bad
-             thing is that we might have completely lost a couple of fds
-             without chance to recover them. Hence let's treat this as a
-             serious error. */
-
-          errno = ENOSPC;
-          _dbus_string_set_length (buffer, start);
-          return -1;
-        }
-
       for (cm = CMSG_FIRSTHDR(&m); cm; cm = CMSG_NXTHDR(&m, cm))
         if (cm->cmsg_level == SOL_SOCKET && cm->cmsg_type == SCM_RIGHTS)
           {
@@ -501,6 +489,26 @@ _dbus_read_socket_with_unix_fds (DBusSocket        fd,
       if (!found)
         *n_fds = 0;
 
+      if (m.msg_flags & MSG_CTRUNC)
+        {
+          unsigned int i;
+
+          /* Hmm, apparently the control data was truncated. The bad
+             thing is that we might have completely lost a couple of fds
+             without chance to recover them. Hence let's treat this as a
+             serious error. */
+
+          /* We still need to close whatever fds we *did* receive,
+           * otherwise they'll never get closed. (CVE-2020-12049) */
+          for (i = 0; i < *n_fds; i++)
+            close (fds[i]);
+
+          *n_fds = 0;
+          errno = ENOSPC;
+          _dbus_string_set_length (buffer, start);
+          return -1;
+        }
+
       /* put length back (doesn't actually realloc) */
       _dbus_string_set_length (buffer, start + bytes_read);