ipv6_find_hdr() does not validate that this is an IPv6 packet. Add a sanity check for calling ipv6_find_hdr() to make sure an IPv6 packet is passed for parsing. Fixes: 96518518cc41 ("netfilter: add nftables") Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/netfilter/nft_exthdr.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) diff --git a/net/netfilter/nft_exthdr.c b/net/netfilter/nft_exthdr.c index 7f705b5c09de..d8f03175879f 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nft_exthdr.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nft_exthdr.c @@ -44,6 +44,9 @@ static void nft_exthdr_ipv6_eval(const struct nft_expr *expr, unsigned int offset = 0; int err; + if (skb->protocol != htons(ETH_P_IPV6)) + goto err; + err = ipv6_find_hdr(pkt->skb, &offset, priv->type, NULL, NULL); if (priv->flags & NFT_EXTHDR_F_PRESENT) { nft_reg_store8(dest, err >= 0); -- 2.20.1