Instead of the ever-messier text parsing of the output of the readelf
tool (which is clearly meant for human consumption not to be machine
parseable), parse the ELF binaries directly.
Add a small dependency-less ELF parser specific to the checks.
This is slightly more secure, too, because it removes potential
ambiguity due to misparsing and changes in the output format of `elfread`. It
also allows for stricter and more specific ELF format checks in the future.
This removes the build-time dependency for `readelf`.
It passes the test-security-check for me locally, though I haven't
checked on all platforms.
Check that sections are appropriately separated in virtual memory,
based on their (expected) permissions. This checks for missing
-Wl,-z,separate-code and potentially other problems.
Co-authored-by: fanquake <fanquake@gmail.com>
3fc20632a3 qt: Set BLOCK_CHAIN_SIZE = 220 (DrahtBot)
2b6a2f4a28 Regenerate manpages (DrahtBot)
eb7daf4d60 Update copyright headers to 2018 (DrahtBot)
Pull request description:
Some trivial maintenance to avoid having to do it again after the 0.17 branch off.
(The scripts to do this are in `./contrib/`)
Tree-SHA512: 16b2af45e0351b1c691c5311d48025dc6828079e98c2aa2e600dc5910ee8aa01858ca6c356538150dc46fe14c8819ed8ec8e4ec9a0f682b9950dd41bc50518fa
62c2915 build: supply `-Wl,--high-entropy-va` (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
9a75d29 devtools: Check for high-entropy ASLR in 64-bit PE executables (Wladimir J. van der Laan)
Ubuntu 16.04 "xenial xerus" does not come with Python 2.x by default.
It is possible to install a python-2.7 package, but this has its own
problem: no `python` or `python2` symlink (see #7717).
This fixes the following scripts to work with python 3:
- `make check` (bctest,py, bitcoin-util-test.py)
- `make translate` (extract_strings_qt.py)
- `make symbols-check` (symbol-check.py)
- `make security-check` (security-check.py)
Explicitly call the python commands using $(PYTHON) instead
of relying on the interpreter line at the top of the scripts.
Perform the following ELF security checks:
- PIE: Check for position independent executable (PIE), allowing for address space randomization
- NX: Check that no sections are writable and executable (including the stack)
- RELRO: Check for read-only relocations, binding at startup
- Canary: Check for use of stack canary
Also add a check to symbol-check.py that checks that only the subset of
allowed libraries is imported (to avoid incompatibilities).
Luke Dashjr