3.16.40-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Phil Turnbull <phil.turnbull@xxxxxxxxxx> commit c58d6c93680f28ac58984af61d0a7ebf4319c241 upstream. If nlh->nlmsg_len is zero then an infinite loop is triggered because 'skb_pull(skb, msglen);' pulls zero bytes. The calculation in nlmsg_len() underflows if 'nlh->nlmsg_len < NLMSG_HDRLEN' which bypasses the length validation and will later trigger an out-of-bound read. If the length validation does fail then the malformed batch message is copied back to userspace. However, we cannot do this because the nlh->nlmsg_len can be invalid. This leads to an out-of-bounds read in netlink_ack: [ 41.455421] ================================================================== [ 41.456431] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in memcpy+0x1d/0x40 at addr ffff880119e79340 [ 41.456431] Read of size 4294967280 by task a.out/987 [ 41.456431] ============================================================================= [ 41.456431] BUG kmalloc-512 (Not tainted): kasan: bad access detected [ 41.456431] ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ... [ 41.456431] Bytes b4 ffff880119e79310: 00 00 00 00 d5 03 00 00 b0 fb fe ff 00 00 00 00 ................ [ 41.456431] Object ffff880119e79320: 20 00 00 00 10 00 05 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 ............... [ 41.456431] Object ffff880119e79330: 14 00 0a 00 01 03 fc 40 45 56 11 22 33 10 00 05 .......@EV."3... [ 41.456431] Object ffff880119e79340: f0 ff ff ff 88 99 aa bb 00 14 00 0a 00 06 fe fb ................ ^^ start of batch nlmsg with nlmsg_len=4294967280 ... [ 41.456431] Memory state around the buggy address: [ 41.456431] ffff880119e79400: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 [ 41.456431] ffff880119e79480: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 [ 41.456431] >ffff880119e79500: 00 00 00 00 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc [ 41.456431] ^ [ 41.456431] ffff880119e79580: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc [ 41.456431] ffff880119e79600: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fb fb fb fb fb fb [ 41.456431] ================================================================== Fix this with better validation of nlh->nlmsg_len and by setting NFNL_BATCH_FAILURE if any batch message fails length validation. CAP_NET_ADMIN is required to trigger the bugs. Fixes: 9ea2aa8b7dba ("netfilter: nfnetlink: validate nfnetlink header from batch") Signed-off-by: Phil Turnbull <phil.turnbull@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> [bwh: Backported to 3.16: - We don't have an error list so don't call nfnl_err_reset() - Set 'success' variable instead of 'status'] Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- --- a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c @@ -273,10 +273,11 @@ replay: nlh = nlmsg_hdr(skb); err = 0; - if (nlmsg_len(nlh) < sizeof(struct nfgenmsg) || - skb->len < nlh->nlmsg_len) { - err = -EINVAL; - goto ack; + if (nlh->nlmsg_len < NLMSG_HDRLEN || + skb->len < nlh->nlmsg_len || + nlmsg_len(nlh) < sizeof(struct nfgenmsg)) { + success = false; + goto done; } /* Only requests are handled by the kernel */