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Execshield test: libruby.so.N.N.N: FAIL: property-note test because no .note.gnu.property section found

Added by jaruga (Jun Aruga) over 3 years ago. Updated 6 months ago.


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I found an issue in our company's internal test called "execshield" by a security tool annobin - annocheck command [1][2].

Hardened: libruby.so.2.7.4: FAIL: property-note test because no .note.gnu.property section found

Here is the reproducer on the upstream latest master, commit is 5f2987d6c2ae9ace3178ac3e1bbb4ac7079101eb,

$ autoconf
$ ./configure --enable-shared
$ make

$ ls libruby.so.3.1.0
libruby.so.3.1.0*

If you are using Red Hat based Linux distro, it's easy to install by the RPM package like this.

$ sudo dnf -y install annobin-annocheck
$ sudo yum -y install annobin-annocheck

Then

$ annocheck libruby.so.3.1.0

If you are using other Linux distros such as Ubuntu, you can use it by a container I prepared.

Prepare the following Dockerfile.

$ cat Dockerfile 
FROM docker.io/fedora:34

RUN cat /etc/fedora-release
RUN dnf -y install annobin-annocheck
WORKDIR /work

Then build the container image with the Dockerfile and run the annocheck command for the libruby.so.3.1.0 on your host environment. The -v is an option for bind mount between host and container environment.

$ docker build --rm -t fedora-annocheck .

$ docker run --rm -t -v $(pwd):/work fedora-annocheck annocheck /work/libruby.so.3.1.0
annocheck: Version 9.79.
Hardened: libruby.so.3.1.0: FAIL: bind-now test because not linked with -Wl,-z,now 
Hardened: libruby.so.3.1.0: FAIL: notes test because gaps were detected in the annobin coverage 
Hardened: libruby.so.3.1.0: FAIL: cf-protection test because no .note.gnu.property section = no control flow information 
Hardened: libruby.so.3.1.0: FAIL: property-note test because no .note.gnu.property section found 
Hardened: Rerun annocheck with --verbose to see more information on the tests.

The message Hardened: libruby.so.3.1.0: FAIL: property-note test because no .note.gnu.property section found is what I found in our internal test. For other FAIL messages, maybe it can be fixed by changing how to build.

Asking a colleague, I was told that the coroutine/*/Context.S files such as coroutine/x86/Context.S cause the failure. Do you have any idea how to fix this? Thanks.


Files

0001-Add-.note.gnu.property-sections.patch (2.64 KB) 0001-Add-.note.gnu.property-sections.patch nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada), 08/04/2021 04:20 PM
0001-Add-.note.gnu.property-sections.patch (3.69 KB) 0001-Add-.note.gnu.property-sections.patch nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada), 08/06/2021 12:26 PM
config-pie.log (11.4 KB) config-pie.log jaruga (Jun Aruga), 05/13/2022 08:11 PM

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