This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled af_key: fix buffer overread in parse_exthdrs() 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: af_key-fix-buffer-overread-in-parse_exthdrs.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 4e765b4972af7b07adcb1feb16e7a525ce1f6b28 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2017 18:15:23 -0600 Subject: af_key: fix buffer overread in parse_exthdrs() From: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 4e765b4972af7b07adcb1feb16e7a525ce1f6b28 upstream. If a message sent to a PF_KEY socket ended with an incomplete extension header (fewer than 4 bytes remaining), then parse_exthdrs() read past the end of the message, into uninitialized memory. Fix it by returning -EINVAL in this case. Reproducer: #include <linux/pfkeyv2.h> #include <sys/socket.h> #include <unistd.h> int main() { int sock = socket(PF_KEY, SOCK_RAW, PF_KEY_V2); char buf[17] = { 0 }; struct sadb_msg *msg = (void *)buf; msg->sadb_msg_version = PF_KEY_V2; msg->sadb_msg_type = SADB_DELETE; msg->sadb_msg_len = 2; write(sock, buf, 17); } Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/key/af_key.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- a/net/key/af_key.c +++ b/net/key/af_key.c @@ -516,6 +516,9 @@ static int parse_exthdrs(struct sk_buff uint16_t ext_type; int ext_len; + if (len < sizeof(*ehdr)) + return -EINVAL; + ext_len = ehdr->sadb_ext_len; ext_len *= sizeof(uint64_t); ext_type = ehdr->sadb_ext_type; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ebiggers@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.18/af_key-fix-buffer-overread-in-parse_exthdrs.patch queue-3.18/af_key-fix-buffer-overread-in-verify_address_len.patch