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Commit f55ce7b0 authored by Mateusz Jurczyk's avatar Mateusz Jurczyk Committed by Pablo Neira Ayuso
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netfilter: nfnetlink: Improve input length sanitization in nfnetlink_rcv



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 < NLMSG_HDRLEN 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: default avatarMateusz Jurczyk <mjurczyk@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
parent 533da29b
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