This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled batman-adv: verify tt len does not exceed packet len to the 3.8-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: batman-adv-verify-tt-len-does-not-exceed-packet-len.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.8 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From dfc8b938216b524800a183791072032a0390c2d1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@xxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2013 10:39:49 +0800 Subject: batman-adv: verify tt len does not exceed packet len From: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@xxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit b47506d91259c29b9c75c404737eb6525556f9b4 ] batadv_iv_ogm_process() accesses the packet using the tt_num_changes attribute regardless of the real packet len (assuming the length check was done before). Therefore a length check is needed to avoid reading random memory. Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@xxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c +++ b/net/batman-adv/bat_iv_ogm.c @@ -1298,7 +1298,8 @@ static int batadv_iv_ogm_receive(struct batadv_ogm_packet = (struct batadv_ogm_packet *)packet_buff; /* unpack the aggregated packets and process them one by one */ - do { + while (batadv_iv_ogm_aggr_packet(buff_pos, packet_len, + batadv_ogm_packet->tt_num_changes)) { tt_buff = packet_buff + buff_pos + BATADV_OGM_HLEN; batadv_iv_ogm_process(ethhdr, batadv_ogm_packet, tt_buff, @@ -1309,8 +1310,7 @@ static int batadv_iv_ogm_receive(struct packet_pos = packet_buff + buff_pos; batadv_ogm_packet = (struct batadv_ogm_packet *)packet_pos; - } while (batadv_iv_ogm_aggr_packet(buff_pos, packet_len, - batadv_ogm_packet->tt_num_changes)); + } kfree_skb(skb); return NET_RX_SUCCESS; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from lindner_marek@xxxxxxxx are queue-3.8/batman-adv-verify-tt-len-does-not-exceed-packet-len.patch -- 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