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authorMichal Kubeček <mkubecek@suse.cz>2016-12-02 09:33:41 +0100
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2016-12-02 14:03:20 -0500
commit3de81b758853f0b29c61e246679d20b513c4cfec (patch)
treefe4107dc49e976bfeeacd6cae7b18ac8dd179851 /net/tipc/bearer.c
parentf0d21e894713b43a75bdf2d1b31e587bd5db5341 (diff)
downloadlinux-3de81b758853f0b29c61e246679d20b513c4cfec.tar.gz
tipc: check minimum bearer MTU
Qian Zhang (张谦) reported a potential socket buffer overflow in
tipc_msg_build() which is also known as CVE-2016-8632: due to
insufficient checks, a buffer overflow can occur if MTU is too short for
even tipc headers. As anyone can set device MTU in a user/net namespace,
this issue can be abused by a regular user.

As agreed in the discussion on Ben Hutchings' original patch, we should
check the MTU at the moment a bearer is attached rather than for each
processed packet. We also need to repeat the check when bearer MTU is
adjusted to new device MTU. UDP case also needs a check to avoid
overflow when calculating bearer MTU.

Fixes: b97bf3fd8f6a ("[TIPC] Initial merge")
Signed-off-by: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>
Reported-by: Qian Zhang (张谦) <zhangqian-c@360.cn>
Acked-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/tipc/bearer.c')
-rw-r--r--net/tipc/bearer.c11
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/tipc/bearer.c b/net/tipc/bearer.c
index 975dbeb60ab0..52d74760fb68 100644
--- a/net/tipc/bearer.c
+++ b/net/tipc/bearer.c
@@ -421,6 +421,10 @@ int tipc_enable_l2_media(struct net *net, struct tipc_bearer *b,
 	dev = dev_get_by_name(net, driver_name);
 	if (!dev)
 		return -ENODEV;
+	if (tipc_mtu_bad(dev, 0)) {
+		dev_put(dev);
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
 
 	/* Associate TIPC bearer with L2 bearer */
 	rcu_assign_pointer(b->media_ptr, dev);
@@ -610,8 +614,6 @@ static int tipc_l2_device_event(struct notifier_block *nb, unsigned long evt,
 	if (!b)
 		return NOTIFY_DONE;
 
-	b->mtu = dev->mtu;
-
 	switch (evt) {
 	case NETDEV_CHANGE:
 		if (netif_carrier_ok(dev))
@@ -624,6 +626,11 @@ static int tipc_l2_device_event(struct notifier_block *nb, unsigned long evt,
 		tipc_reset_bearer(net, b);
 		break;
 	case NETDEV_CHANGEMTU:
+		if (tipc_mtu_bad(dev, 0)) {
+			bearer_disable(net, b);
+			break;
+		}
+		b->mtu = dev->mtu;
 		tipc_reset_bearer(net, b);
 		break;
 	case NETDEV_CHANGEADDR: