3.8-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Mathias Krause <minipli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 6e601a53566d84e1ffd25e7b6fe0b6894ffd79c0 ] Userland can send a netlink message requesting SOCK_DIAG_BY_FAMILY with a family greater or equal then AF_MAX -- the array size of sock_diag_handlers[]. The current code does not test for this condition therefore is vulnerable to an out-of-bound access opening doors for a privilege escalation. Signed-off-by: Mathias Krause <minipli@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/core/sock_diag.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- a/net/core/sock_diag.c +++ b/net/core/sock_diag.c @@ -121,6 +121,9 @@ static int __sock_diag_rcv_msg(struct sk if (nlmsg_len(nlh) < sizeof(*req)) return -EINVAL; + if (req->sdiag_family >= AF_MAX) + return -EINVAL; + hndl = sock_diag_lock_handler(req->sdiag_family); if (hndl == NULL) err = -ENOENT; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html