This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
[PATCH 133/135] netfilter: x_tables: check for size overflow
to the 4.4-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:
0133-netfilter-x_tables-check-for-size-overflow.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 857d46ff805805aeb539429216be3db548b03350 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 11:44:54 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 133/135] netfilter: x_tables: check for size overflow
[ Upstream commit d157bd761585605b7882935ffb86286919f62ea1 ]
Ben Hawkes says:
integer overflow in xt_alloc_table_info, which on 32-bit systems can
lead to small structure allocation and a copy_from_user based heap
corruption.
Reported-by: Ben Hawkes <hawkes@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <alexander.levin@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/netfilter/x_tables.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
--- a/net/netfilter/x_tables.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/x_tables.c
@@ -897,6 +897,9 @@ struct xt_table_info *xt_alloc_table_inf
struct xt_table_info *info = NULL;
size_t sz = sizeof(*info) + size;
+ if (sz < sizeof(*info))
+ return NULL;
+
/* Pedantry: prevent them from hitting BUG() in vmalloc.c --RR */
if ((SMP_ALIGN(size) >> PAGE_SHIFT) + 2 > totalram_pages)
return NULL;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from fw@xxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/0133-netfilter-x_tables-check-for-size-overflow.patch
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