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author | Mateusz Jurczyk <mjurczyk@google.com> | 2017-06-07 16:14:29 +0200 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2017-06-08 10:51:22 -0400 |
commit | dd0da17b209ed91f39872766634ca967c170ada1 (patch) | |
tree | 1d31dd81171bc855f26ac2cfb6f801b7f9889f3c /net/core | |
parent | c164772dd32343ee19e276ce0137830557517834 (diff) |
decnet: dn_rtmsg: Improve input length sanitization in dnrmg_receive_user_skb
Verify that the length of the socket buffer is sufficient to cover the
nlmsghdr structure before accessing the nlh->nlmsg_len field for further
input sanitization. If the client only supplies 1-3 bytes of data in
sk_buff, then nlh->nlmsg_len remains partially uninitialized and
contains leftover memory from the corresponding kernel allocation.
Operating on such data may result in indeterminate evaluation of the
nlmsg_len < sizeof(*nlh) expression.
The bug was discovered by a runtime instrumentation designed to detect
use of uninitialized memory in the kernel. The patch prevents this and
other similar tools (e.g. KMSAN) from flagging this behavior in the future.
Signed-off-by: Mateusz Jurczyk <mjurczyk@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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