Package: openvpn Severity: normal Tags: security When running openvpn compiled with ASAN, an exception appears:
$ /home/fmunozs/openvpn/openvpn-2.3.2/src/openvpn/openvpn --genkey --secret key.$$ ================================================================= ==31351==ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-use-after-free on address 0xb5118174 at pc 0xb74ea8f9 bp 0xbfa4faf8 sp 0xbfa4fae8 READ of size 4 at 0xb5118174 thread T0 #0 0xb74ea8f8 in env_set_destroy /home/fmunozs/openvpn/openvpn-2.3.2/src/openvpn/misc.c:582 #1 0xb755cb34 in openvpn_main /home/fmunozs/openvpn/openvpn-2.3.2/src/openvpn/openvpn.c:280 #2 0xb741848a in main /home/fmunozs/openvpn/openvpn-2.3.2/src/openvpn/openvpn.c:324 #3 0xb6a6872d in __libc_start_main (/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6+0x1872d) #4 0xb7419009 (/home/fmunozs/openvpn/openvpn-2.3.2/src/openvpn/openvpn+0x29009) 0xb5118174 is located 4 bytes inside of 12-byte region [0xb5118170,0xb511817c) freed by thread T0 here: #0 0xb6ef6f06 in __interceptor_free (/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libasan.so.1+0x50f06) #1 0xb741fd18 in x_gc_free /home/fmunozs/openvpn/openvpn-2.3.2/src/openvpn/buffer.c:360 previously allocated by thread T0 here: #0 0xb6ef718c in __interceptor_malloc (/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libasan.so.1+0x5118c) #1 0xb741fa77 in gc_malloc /home/fmunozs/openvpn/openvpn-2.3.2/src/openvpn/buffer.c:336 SUMMARY: AddressSanitizer: heap-use-after-free /home/fmunozs/openvpn/openvpn-2.3.2/src/openvpn/misc.c:582 env_set_destroy Shadow bytes around the buggy address: 0x36a22fd0: fa fa 00 00 fa fa 00 04 fa fa 00 00 fa fa 00 04 0x36a22fe0: fa fa 00 00 fa fa 00 04 fa fa 00 00 fa fa 00 04 0x36a22ff0: fa fa 00 00 fa fa 00 04 fa fa 00 00 fa fa 00 04 0x36a23000: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa 0x36a23010: fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa =>0x36a23020: fa fa 00 00 fa fa 00 00 fa fa 00 00 fa fa[fd]fd 0x36a23030: fa fa 00 04 fa fa 00 00 fa fa 00 04 fa fa 00 00 0x36a23040: fa fa 00 04 fa fa fd fd fa fa 00 00 fa fa 00 00 0x36a23050: fa fa 00 00 fa fa 00 00 fa fa 00 00 fa fa 00 00 0x36a23060: fa fa 00 00 fa fa 00 00 fa fa 00 00 fa fa 00 00 0x36a23070: fa fa 00 00 fa fa 00 00 fa fa 00 00 fa fa 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 Contiguous container OOB:fc ASan internal: fe ==31351==ABORTING This is the output when running the standard build under valgrind, which also shows the invalid read: $ valgrind "openvpn" --genkey --secret key.$$ ==31096== Memcheck, a memory error detector ==31096== Copyright (C) 2002-2013, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al. ==31096== Using Valgrind-3.10.1 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info ==31096== Command: openvpn --genkey --secret key.31069 ==31096== ==31096== Invalid read of size 4 ==31096== at 0x1303CA: ??? (in /usr/sbin/openvpn) ==31096== by 0x141975: ??? (in /usr/sbin/openvpn) ==31096== by 0x10FAEA: main (in /usr/sbin/openvpn) ==31096== Address 0x4ce5a14 is 4 bytes inside a block of size 12 free'd ==31096== at 0x482D358: free (in /usr/lib/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-x86-linux.so) ==31096== by 0x1108EA: ??? (in /usr/sbin/openvpn) ==31096== by 0x122E1A: ??? (in /usr/sbin/openvpn) ==31096== by 0x141968: ??? (in /usr/sbin/openvpn) ==31096== by 0x10FAEA: main (in /usr/sbin/openvpn) ==31096== ==31096== ==31096== HEAP SUMMARY: ==31096== in use at exit: 276 bytes in 9 blocks ==31096== total heap usage: 3,216 allocs, 3,207 frees, 89,032 bytes allocated ==31096== ==31096== LEAK SUMMARY: ==31096== definitely lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks ==31096== indirectly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks ==31096== possibly lost: 0 bytes in 0 blocks ==31096== still reachable: 276 bytes in 9 blocks ==31096== suppressed: 0 bytes in 0 blocks ==31096== Rerun with --leak-check=full to see details of leaked memory ==31096== ==31096== For counts of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -v ==31096== ERROR SUMMARY: 1 errors from 1 contexts (suppressed: 0 from 0)