This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
sctp: potential read out of bounds in sctp_ulpevent_type_enabled()
to the 3.18-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:
sctp-potential-read-out-of-bounds-in-sctp_ulpevent_type_enabled.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 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 Thu Oct 19 14:44:13 CEST 2017
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 02:00:54 +0300
Subject: sctp: potential read out of bounds in sctp_ulpevent_type_enabled()
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit fa5f7b51fc3080c2b195fa87c7eca7c05e56f673 ]
This code causes a static checker warning because Smatch doesn't trust
anything that comes from skb->data. I've reviewed this code and I do
think skb->data can be controlled by the user here.
The sctp_event_subscribe struct has 13 __u8 fields and we want to see
if ours is non-zero. sn_type can be any value in the 0-USHRT_MAX range.
We're subtracting SCTP_SN_TYPE_BASE which is 1 << 15 so we could read
either before the start of the struct or after the end.
This is a very old bug and it's surprising that it would go undetected
for so long but my theory is that it just doesn't have a big impact so
it would be hard to notice.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/net/sctp/ulpevent.h | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/include/net/sctp/ulpevent.h
+++ b/include/net/sctp/ulpevent.h
@@ -141,8 +141,12 @@ __u16 sctp_ulpevent_get_notification_typ
static inline int sctp_ulpevent_type_enabled(__u16 sn_type,
struct sctp_event_subscribe *mask)
{
+ int offset = sn_type - SCTP_SN_TYPE_BASE;
char *amask = (char *) mask;
- return amask[sn_type - SCTP_SN_TYPE_BASE];
+
+ if (offset >= sizeof(struct sctp_event_subscribe))
+ return 0;
+ return amask[offset];
}
/* Given an event subscription, is this event enabled? */
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.18/sctp-potential-read-out-of-bounds-in-sctp_ulpevent_type_enabled.patch