This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled netfilter: nfnetlink: validate nfnetlink header from batch 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: netfilter-nfnetlink-validate-nfnetlink-header-from-batch.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 9ea2aa8b7dba9e99544c4187cc298face254569f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2015 15:20:29 +0100 Subject: netfilter: nfnetlink: validate nfnetlink header from batch From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 9ea2aa8b7dba9e99544c4187cc298face254569f upstream. Make sure there is enough room for the nfnetlink header in the netlink messages that are part of the batch. There is a similar check in netlink_rcv_skb(). Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c +++ b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c @@ -321,7 +321,8 @@ replay: nlh = nlmsg_hdr(skb); err = 0; - if (nlh->nlmsg_len < NLMSG_HDRLEN) { + if (nlmsg_len(nlh) < sizeof(struct nfgenmsg) || + skb->len < nlh->nlmsg_len) { err = -EINVAL; goto ack; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.18/netfilter-nfnetlink-validate-nfnetlink-header-from-batch.patch queue-3.18/netfilter-nf_tables-fix-flush-ruleset-chain-dependencies.patch queue-3.18/netfilter-nfnetlink-relax-strict-multicast-group-check-from-netlink_bind.patch queue-3.18/netfilter-conntrack-fix-race-between-confirmation-and-flush.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