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[PATCH 1/1] netfilter: h323: avoid potential attack

From Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject [PATCH 1/1] netfilter: h323: avoid potential attack
Date 2016-01-27 16:00 +0100
Message-ID <qVzJE-4Zj-3@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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From: Zhouyi Zhou <yizhouzhou@ict.ac.cn>

I think hackers chould build a malicious h323 packet to overflow
the pointer p which will panic during the memcpy(addr, p, len)

For example, he may fabricate a very large taddr->ipAddress.ip; 

Signed-off-by: Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@gmail.com>
---
 net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_h323_main.c |    8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_h323_main.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_h323_main.c
index 9511af0..3b3dd8c 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_h323_main.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_h323_main.c
@@ -110,6 +110,10 @@ int (*nat_q931_hook) (struct sk_buff *skb,
 
 static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(nf_h323_lock);
 static char *h323_buffer;
+#define CHECK_BOUND(p, n) do {					\
+		if (((p - h323_buffer) + n) > 65536)		\
+			return 0;				\
+} while (0)
 
 static struct nf_conntrack_helper nf_conntrack_helper_h245;
 static struct nf_conntrack_helper nf_conntrack_helper_q931[];
@@ -247,6 +251,8 @@ static int get_h245_addr(struct nf_conn *ct, const unsigned char *data,
 		return 0;
 	}
 
+	CHECK_BOUND(p, len);
+
 	memcpy(addr, p, len);
 	memset((void *)addr + len, 0, sizeof(*addr) - len);
 	memcpy(port, p + len, sizeof(__be16));
@@ -669,6 +675,8 @@ int get_h225_addr(struct nf_conn *ct, unsigned char *data,
 		return 0;
 	}
 
+	CHECK_BOUND(p, len);
+
 	memcpy(addr, p, len);
 	memset((void *)addr + len, 0, sizeof(*addr) - len);
 	memcpy(port, p + len, sizeof(__be16));
-- 
1.7.10.4

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[PATCH 1/1] netfilter: h323: avoid potential attack Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@gmail.com> - 2016-01-27 16:00 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 1/1] netfilter: h323: avoid potential attack kbuild test robot <lkp@intel.com> - 2016-01-27 16:10 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 1/1] netfilter: h323: avoid potential attack Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> - 2016-01-27 17:00 +0100

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