On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 07:39:50PM +0200, Phil Sutter wrote: > As netlink_get_register() may return NULL, we must not pass the returned > data unchecked to expr_set_type() as that will dereference it. Since the > parser has failed at that point anyway, by returning early we can skip > the useless statement allocation that follows in > netlink_parse_ct_stmt(). I found a couple more spots, such as the payload stmt that was not covered by this patch. Attaching a new one based on this, looks good to you? Anyway, this is very unlikely to happen: Only if we ever get more registers in the kernel, given that expl_clone() relies on the xzalloc() function that just stops execution under OOM. Actually this brings an interesting issue that is that we need to provide a way to describe the vm capabilities so we can extend things in the future without breaking userspace.
commit 098dae9e0cf2237b4cb3cf4c1ee89fbf9f9fb5e9 Author: Phil Sutter <phil@xxxxxx> Date: Tue Aug 30 19:39:50 2016 +0200 netlink_delinearize: Avoid potential null pointer deref As netlink_get_register() may return NULL, we must not pass the returned data unchecked to expr_set_type() as that will dereference it. Since the parser has failed at that point anyway, by returning early we can skip the useless statement allocation that follows in netlink_parse_ct_stmt(). Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/src/netlink_delinearize.c b/src/netlink_delinearize.c index 1a1cfbd..cddbfa6 100644 --- a/src/netlink_delinearize.c +++ b/src/netlink_delinearize.c @@ -428,6 +428,10 @@ static void netlink_parse_payload_stmt(struct netlink_parse_ctx *ctx, sreg = netlink_parse_register(nle, NFTNL_EXPR_PAYLOAD_SREG); val = netlink_get_register(ctx, loc, sreg); + if (val == NULL) + return netlink_error(ctx, loc, + "payload statement has no expression"); + stmt = payload_stmt_alloc(loc, expr, val); list_add_tail(&stmt->list, &ctx->rule->stmts); @@ -473,6 +477,9 @@ static void netlink_parse_hash(struct netlink_parse_ctx *ctx, sreg = netlink_parse_register(nle, NFTNL_EXPR_HASH_SREG); hexpr = netlink_get_register(ctx, loc, sreg); + if (hexpr == NULL) + return netlink_error(ctx, loc, + "hash statement has no expression"); seed = nftnl_expr_get_u32(nle, NFTNL_EXPR_HASH_SEED); mod = nftnl_expr_get_u32(nle, NFTNL_EXPR_HASH_MODULUS); @@ -517,6 +524,9 @@ static void netlink_parse_meta_stmt(struct netlink_parse_ctx *ctx, sreg = netlink_parse_register(nle, NFTNL_EXPR_META_SREG); expr = netlink_get_register(ctx, loc, sreg); + if (expr == NULL) + return netlink_error(ctx, loc, + "meta statement has no expression"); key = nftnl_expr_get_u32(nle, NFTNL_EXPR_META_KEY); stmt = meta_stmt_alloc(loc, key, expr); @@ -562,6 +572,9 @@ static void netlink_parse_ct_stmt(struct netlink_parse_ctx *ctx, sreg = netlink_parse_register(nle, NFTNL_EXPR_CT_SREG); expr = netlink_get_register(ctx, loc, sreg); + if (expr == NULL) + return netlink_error(ctx, loc, + "ct statement has no expression"); key = nftnl_expr_get_u32(nle, NFTNL_EXPR_CT_KEY); stmt = ct_stmt_alloc(loc, key, expr);