This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled ipv6: dccp: fix out of bound access in dccp_v6_err() to the 4.8-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: ipv6-dccp-fix-out-of-bound-access-in-dccp_v6_err.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.8 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From foo@baz Fri Nov 18 11:35:46 CET 2016 From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 20:30:48 -0700 Subject: ipv6: dccp: fix out of bound access in dccp_v6_err() From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 1aa9d1a0e7eefcc61696e147d123453fc0016005 ] dccp_v6_err() does not use pskb_may_pull() and might access garbage. We only need 4 bytes at the beginning of the DCCP header, like TCP, so the 8 bytes pulled in icmpv6_notify() are more than enough. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/dccp/ipv6.c | 15 ++++++++------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) --- a/net/dccp/ipv6.c +++ b/net/dccp/ipv6.c @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ static void dccp_v6_err(struct sk_buff * u8 type, u8 code, int offset, __be32 info) { const struct ipv6hdr *hdr = (const struct ipv6hdr *)skb->data; - const struct dccp_hdr *dh = (struct dccp_hdr *)(skb->data + offset); + const struct dccp_hdr *dh; struct dccp_sock *dp; struct ipv6_pinfo *np; struct sock *sk; @@ -78,12 +78,13 @@ static void dccp_v6_err(struct sk_buff * __u64 seq; struct net *net = dev_net(skb->dev); - if (skb->len < offset + sizeof(*dh) || - skb->len < offset + __dccp_basic_hdr_len(dh)) { - __ICMP6_INC_STATS(net, __in6_dev_get(skb->dev), - ICMP6_MIB_INERRORS); - return; - } + /* Only need dccph_dport & dccph_sport which are the first + * 4 bytes in dccp header. + * Our caller (icmpv6_notify()) already pulled 8 bytes for us. + */ + BUILD_BUG_ON(offsetofend(struct dccp_hdr, dccph_sport) > 8); + BUILD_BUG_ON(offsetofend(struct dccp_hdr, dccph_dport) > 8); + dh = (struct dccp_hdr *)(skb->data + offset); sk = __inet6_lookup_established(net, &dccp_hashinfo, &hdr->daddr, dh->dccph_dport, Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.8/net-__skb_flow_dissect-must-cap-its-return-value.patch queue-4.8/tcp-take-care-of-truncations-done-by-sk_filter.patch queue-4.8/net-clear-sk_err_soft-in-sk_clone_lock.patch queue-4.8/dccp-do-not-release-listeners-too-soon.patch queue-4.8/net-mangle-zero-checksum-in-skb_checksum_help.patch queue-4.8/tcp-fix-return-value-for-partial-writes.patch queue-4.8/ipv6-dccp-fix-out-of-bound-access-in-dccp_v6_err.patch queue-4.8/ipv6-dccp-add-missing-bind_conflict-to-dccp_ipv6_mapped.patch queue-4.8/tcp-fix-potential-memory-corruption.patch queue-4.8/dccp-do-not-send-reset-to-already-closed-sockets.patch queue-4.8/dccp-fix-out-of-bound-access-in-dccp_v4_err.patch queue-4.8/sock-fix-sendmmsg-for-partial-sendmsg.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