The statement happily accepted any valid expression as payload and assumed it to be a tcpopt expression (actually, a special case of exthdr). Add a check to make sure this is the case. Standard syntax does not provide this flexibility, so no need to have the check there as well. Fixes: 5d837d270d5a8 ("src: add tcp option reset support") Signed-off-by: Phil Sutter <phil@xxxxxx> --- src/parser_json.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/parser_json.c b/src/parser_json.c index 4ea5b4326a900..242f05eece58c 100644 --- a/src/parser_json.c +++ b/src/parser_json.c @@ -2797,7 +2797,14 @@ static struct stmt *json_parse_optstrip_stmt(struct json_ctx *ctx, { struct expr *expr = json_parse_expr(ctx, value); - return expr ? optstrip_stmt_alloc(int_loc, expr) : NULL; + if (!expr || + expr->etype != EXPR_EXTHDR || + expr->exthdr.op != NFT_EXTHDR_OP_TCPOPT) { + json_error(ctx, "Illegal TCP optstrip argument"); + return NULL; + } + + return optstrip_stmt_alloc(int_loc, expr); } static struct stmt *json_parse_stmt(struct json_ctx *ctx, json_t *root) -- 2.41.0