From: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> It was reported that the Linux kernel sometimes logs: klogd: [2629147.402413] kernel BUG at net / netfilter / nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c: 447! klogd: [1072212.887368] kernel BUG at net / netfilter / nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c: 392 ipv4_get_l4proto() in nf_conntrack_l3proto_ipv4.c and tcp_error() in nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c should catch malformed packets, so the errors at the indicated lines - TCP options parsing - should not happen. However, tcp_error() relies on the "dataoff" offset to the TCP header, calculated by ipv4_get_l4proto(). But ipv4_get_l4proto() does not check bogus ihl values in IPv4 packets, which then can slip through tcp_error() and get caught at the TCP options parsing routines. The patch fixes ipv4_get_l4proto() by invalidating packets with bogus ihl value. The patch closes netfilter bugzilla id 771. Signed-off-by: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_conntrack_l3proto_ipv4.c | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_conntrack_l3proto_ipv4.c b/net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_conntrack_l3proto_ipv4.c index 750b06a..cf73cc7 100644 --- a/net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_conntrack_l3proto_ipv4.c +++ b/net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_conntrack_l3proto_ipv4.c @@ -84,6 +84,14 @@ static int ipv4_get_l4proto(const struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned int nhoff, *dataoff = nhoff + (iph->ihl << 2); *protonum = iph->protocol; + /* Check bogus IP headers */ + if (*dataoff > skb->len) { + pr_debug("nf_conntrack_ipv4: bogus IPv4 packet: " + "nhoff %u, ihl %u, skblen %u\n", + nhoff, iph->ihl << 2, skb->len); + return -NF_ACCEPT; + } + return NF_ACCEPT; } -- 1.7.10.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html