The sctp_asoc_get_hmac() function iterates through a peer's hmac_ids array and attempts to ensure that only a supported hmac entry is returned. The current code fails to do this properly - if the last id in the array is out of range (greater than SCTP_AUTH_HMAC_ID_MAX), the id integer remains set after exiting the loop, and the address of an out-of-bounds entry will be returned and subsequently used in the parent function, causing potentially ugly memory corruption. This patch resets the id integer to 0 on encountering an invalid id so that NULL will be returned after finishing the loop if no valid ids are found. Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- linux-2.6.35.5.orig/net/sctp/auth.c 2010-09-20 16:59:09.000000000 -0400 +++ linux-2.6.35.5/net/sctp/auth.c 2010-10-01 16:48:58.000000000 -0400 @@ -543,16 +543,20 @@ struct sctp_hmac *sctp_auth_asoc_get_hma id = ntohs(hmacs->hmac_ids[i]); /* Check the id is in the supported range */ - if (id > SCTP_AUTH_HMAC_ID_MAX) + if (id > SCTP_AUTH_HMAC_ID_MAX) { + id = 0; continue; + } /* See is we support the id. Supported IDs have name and * length fields set, so that we can allocated and use * them. We can safely just check for name, for without the * name, we can't allocate the TFM. */ - if (!sctp_hmac_list[id].hmac_name) + if (!sctp_hmac_list[id].hmac_name) { + id = 0; continue; + } break; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sctp" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html