AST-2017-006: Fix app_minivm application MinivmNotify command injection

An admin can configure app_minivm with an externnotify program to be run
when a voicemail is received.  The app_minivm application MinivmNotify
uses ast_safe_system() for this purpose which is vulnerable to command
injection since the Caller-ID name and number values given to externnotify
can come from an external untrusted source.

* Add ast_safe_execvp() function.  This gives modules the ability to run
external commands with greater safety compared to ast_safe_system().
Specifically when some parameters are filled by untrusted sources the new
function does not allow malicious input to break argument encoding.  This
may be of particular concern where CALLERID(name) or CALLERID(num) may be
used as a parameter to a script run by ast_safe_system() which could
potentially allow arbitrary command execution.

* Changed app_minivm.c:run_externnotify() to use the new ast_safe_execvp()
instead of ast_safe_system() to avoid command injection.

* Document code injection potential from untrusted data sources for other
shell commands that are under user control.

ASTERISK-27103

Change-Id: I7552472247a84cde24e1358aaf64af160107aef1

1 files changed, 78 insertions, 13 deletions

diff --git a/main/asterisk.c b/main/asterisk.c
index 0a131fda9..d55594983 100644
--- a/main/asterisk.c
+++ b/main/asterisk.c
@@ -1170,11 +1170,10 @@ void ast_unreplace_sigchld(void)
 	ast_mutex_unlock(&safe_system_lock);
 }
 
-int ast_safe_system(const char *s)
+/*! \brief fork and perform other preparations for spawning applications */
+static pid_t safe_exec_prep(int dualfork)
 {
 	pid_t pid;
-	int res;
-	int status;
 
 #if defined(HAVE_WORKING_FORK) || defined(HAVE_WORKING_VFORK)
 	ast_replace_sigchld();
@@ -1196,35 +1195,101 @@ int ast_safe_system(const char *s)
 		cap_free(cap);
 #endif
 #ifdef HAVE_WORKING_FORK
-		if (ast_opt_high_priority)
+		if (ast_opt_high_priority) {
 			ast_set_priority(0);
+		}
 		/* Close file descriptors and launch system command */
 		ast_close_fds_above_n(STDERR_FILENO);
 #endif
-		execl("/bin/sh", "/bin/sh", "-c", s, (char *) NULL);
-		_exit(1);
-	} else if (pid > 0) {
+		if (dualfork) {
+#ifdef HAVE_WORKING_FORK
+			pid = fork();
+#else
+			pid = vfork();
+#endif
+			if (pid < 0) {
+				/* Second fork failed. */
+				/* No logger available. */
+				_exit(1);
+			}
+
+			if (pid > 0) {
+				/* This is the first fork, exit so the reaper finishes right away. */
+				_exit(0);
+			}
+
+			/* This is the second fork.  The first fork will exit immediately so
+			 * Asterisk doesn't have to wait for completion.
+			 * ast_safe_system("cmd &") would run in the background, but the '&'
+			 * cannot be added with ast_safe_execvp, so we have to double fork.
+			 */
+		}
+	}
+
+	if (pid < 0) {
+		ast_log(LOG_WARNING, "Fork failed: %s\n", strerror(errno));
+	}
+#else
+	ast_log(LOG_WARNING, "Fork failed: %s\n", strerror(ENOTSUP));
+	pid = -1;
+#endif
+
+	return pid;
+}
+
+/*! \brief wait for spawned application to complete and unreplace sigchld */
+static int safe_exec_wait(pid_t pid)
+{
+	int res = -1;
+
+#if defined(HAVE_WORKING_FORK) || defined(HAVE_WORKING_VFORK)
+	if (pid > 0) {
 		for (;;) {
+			int status;
+
 			res = waitpid(pid, &status, 0);
 			if (res > -1) {
 				res = WIFEXITED(status) ? WEXITSTATUS(status) : -1;
 				break;
-			} else if (errno != EINTR)
+			}
+			if (errno != EINTR) {
 				break;
+			}
 		}
-	} else {
-		ast_log(LOG_WARNING, "Fork failed: %s\n", strerror(errno));
-		res = -1;
 	}
 
 	ast_unreplace_sigchld();
-#else /* !defined(HAVE_WORKING_FORK) && !defined(HAVE_WORKING_VFORK) */
-	res = -1;
 #endif
 
 	return res;
 }
 
+int ast_safe_execvp(int dualfork, const char *file, char *const argv[])
+{
+	pid_t pid = safe_exec_prep(dualfork);
+
+	if (pid == 0) {
+		execvp(file, argv);
+		_exit(1);
+		/* noreturn from _exit */
+	}
+
+	return safe_exec_wait(pid);
+}
+
+int ast_safe_system(const char *s)
+{
+	pid_t pid = safe_exec_prep(0);
+
+	if (pid == 0) {
+		execl("/bin/sh", "/bin/sh", "-c", s, (char *) NULL);
+		_exit(1);
+		/* noreturn from _exit */
+	}
+
+	return safe_exec_wait(pid);
+}
+
 /*!
  * \brief enable or disable a logging level to a specified console
  */