This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled netfilter: xt_sctp: validate the flag_info count to the 5.10-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-xt_sctp-validate-the-flag_info-count.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From e99476497687ef9e850748fe6d232264f30bc8f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wander Lairson Costa <wander@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2023 19:12:55 -0300 Subject: netfilter: xt_sctp: validate the flag_info count From: Wander Lairson Costa <wander@xxxxxxxxxx> commit e99476497687ef9e850748fe6d232264f30bc8f9 upstream. sctp_mt_check doesn't validate the flag_count field. An attacker can take advantage of that to trigger a OOB read and leak memory information. Add the field validation in the checkentry function. Fixes: 2e4e6a17af35 ("[NETFILTER] x_tables: Abstraction layer for {ip,ip6,arp}_tables") Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Reported-by: Lucas Leong <wmliang@infosec.exchange> Signed-off-by: Wander Lairson Costa <wander@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/netfilter/xt_sctp.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/net/netfilter/xt_sctp.c +++ b/net/netfilter/xt_sctp.c @@ -150,6 +150,8 @@ static int sctp_mt_check(const struct xt { const struct xt_sctp_info *info = par->matchinfo; + if (info->flag_count > ARRAY_SIZE(info->flag_info)) + return -EINVAL; if (info->flags & ~XT_SCTP_VALID_FLAGS) return -EINVAL; if (info->invflags & ~XT_SCTP_VALID_FLAGS) Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from wander@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-5.10/netfilter-xt_sctp-validate-the-flag_info-count.patch queue-5.10/netfilter-xt_u32-validate-user-space-input.patch