This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled netfilter: nf_tables: stricter validation of element data to the 4.19-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: netfilter-nf_tables-stricter-validation-of-element-d.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.19 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 59d3ea150fe52ea1089c5f2fb4f1a2ab3e6fbba8 Author: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue May 16 17:06:11 2023 +0200 netfilter: nf_tables: stricter validation of element data [ 7e6bc1f6cabcd30aba0b11219d8e01b952eacbb6 ] Make sure element data type and length do not mismatch the one specified by the set declaration. Fixes: 7d7402642eaf ("netfilter: nf_tables: variable sized set element keys / data") Reported-by: Hugues ANGUELKOV <hanguelkov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c index c1cbcfb58b476..ab1e0f0962a2b 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_tables_api.c @@ -4163,13 +4163,20 @@ static int nft_setelem_parse_data(struct nft_ctx *ctx, struct nft_set *set, struct nft_data *data, struct nlattr *attr) { + u32 dtype; int err; err = nft_data_init(ctx, data, NFT_DATA_VALUE_MAXLEN, desc, attr); if (err < 0) return err; - if (desc->type != NFT_DATA_VERDICT && desc->len != set->dlen) { + if (set->dtype == NFT_DATA_VERDICT) + dtype = NFT_DATA_VERDICT; + else + dtype = NFT_DATA_VALUE; + + if (dtype != desc->type || + set->dlen != desc->len) { nft_data_release(data, desc->type); return -EINVAL; }