Re: [PATCH nf] netfilter: x_tables: check for size overflow

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On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 01:56:23AM +0100, Florian Westphal wrote:
> Ben Hawkes says:
>  integer overflow in xt_alloc_table_info, which on 32-bit systems can
>  lead to small structure allocation and a copy_from_user based heap
>  corruption.

Applied, thanks Florian. I have slightly mangled this patch, the
second check suffices to catch this case for us.

> Reported-by: Ben Hawkes <hawkes@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  net/netfilter/x_tables.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/net/netfilter/x_tables.c b/net/netfilter/x_tables.c
> index c8a0b7d..17a9a9f 100644
> --- a/net/netfilter/x_tables.c
> +++ b/net/netfilter/x_tables.c
> @@ -659,6 +659,9 @@ struct xt_table_info *xt_alloc_table_info(unsigned int size)
>  	struct xt_table_info *info = NULL;
>  	size_t sz = sizeof(*info) + size;
>  
> +	if (sz < size || sz < sizeof(*info))
> +		return NULL;

So this will show up in the tree like this:

        if (sz < sizeof(*info))
                return NULL;
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