[3.8.y.z extended stable] Patch "netfilter: nf_nat: fix access to uninitialized buffer in IRC NAT" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    netfilter: nf_nat: fix access to uninitialized buffer in IRC NAT

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.19.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 1c2f97298db401012cc280a8c12832a7982d1048 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman at redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Dec 2013 16:28:39 +0100
Subject: netfilter: nf_nat: fix access to uninitialized buffer in IRC NAT
 helper

commit 2690d97ade05c5325cbf7c72b94b90d265659886 upstream.

Commit 5901b6be885e attempted to introduce IPv6 support into
IRC NAT helper. By doing so, the following code seemed to be removed
by accident:

  ip = ntohl(exp->master->tuplehash[IP_CT_DIR_REPLY].tuple.dst.u3.ip);
  sprintf(buffer, "%u %u", ip, port);
  pr_debug("nf_nat_irc: inserting '%s' == %pI4, port %u\n", buffer, &ip, port);

This leads to the fact that buffer[] was left uninitialized and
contained some stack value. When we call nf_nat_mangle_tcp_packet(),
we call strlen(buffer) on excatly this uninitialized buffer. If we
are unlucky and the skb has enough tailroom, we overwrite resp. leak
contents with values that sit on our stack into the packet and send
that out to the receiver.

Since the rather informal DCC spec [1] does not seem to specify
IPv6 support right now, we log such occurences so that admins can
act accordingly, and drop the packet. I've looked into XChat source,
and IPv6 is not supported there: addresses are in u32 and print
via %u format string.

Therefore, restore old behaviour as in IPv4, use snprintf(). The
IRC helper does not support IPv6 by now. By this, we can safely use
strlen(buffer) in nf_nat_mangle_tcp_packet() and prevent a buffer
overflow. Also simplify some code as we now have ct variable anyway.

  [1] http://www.irchelp.org/irchelp/rfc/ctcpspec.html

Fixes: 5901b6be885e ("netfilter: nf_nat: support IPv6 in IRC NAT helper")
Signed-off-by: Daniel Borkmann <dborkman at redhat.com>
Cc: Harald Welte <laforge at gnumonks.org>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo at netfilter.org>
[ kamal: backport to 3.8 for CVE-2014-1690 (context) ]
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 net/netfilter/nf_nat_irc.c | 28 +++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_nat_irc.c b/net/netfilter/nf_nat_irc.c
index 1fedee6..915be4f 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_nat_irc.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_nat_irc.c
@@ -34,10 +34,14 @@ static unsigned int help(struct sk_buff *skb,
 			 struct nf_conntrack_expect *exp)
 {
 	char buffer[sizeof("4294967296 65635")];
+	struct nf_conn *ct = exp->master;
+	union nf_inet_addr newaddr;
 	u_int16_t port;
 	unsigned int ret;

 	/* Reply comes from server. */
+	newaddr = ct->tuplehash[IP_CT_DIR_REPLY].tuple.dst.u3;
+
 	exp->saved_proto.tcp.port = exp->tuple.dst.u.tcp.port;
 	exp->dir = IP_CT_DIR_REPLY;
 	exp->expectfn = nf_nat_follow_master;
@@ -59,11 +63,29 @@ static unsigned int help(struct sk_buff *skb,
 	if (port == 0)
 		return NF_DROP;

-	ret = nf_nat_mangle_tcp_packet(skb, exp->master, ctinfo,
-				       protoff, matchoff, matchlen, buffer,
-				       strlen(buffer));
+	/* strlen("\1DCC CHAT chat AAAAAAAA P\1\n")=27
+	 * strlen("\1DCC SCHAT chat AAAAAAAA P\1\n")=28
+	 * strlen("\1DCC SEND F AAAAAAAA P S\1\n")=26
+	 * strlen("\1DCC MOVE F AAAAAAAA P S\1\n")=26
+	 * strlen("\1DCC TSEND F AAAAAAAA P S\1\n")=27
+	 *
+	 * AAAAAAAAA: bound addr (1.0.0.0==16777216, min 8 digits,
+	 *                        255.255.255.255==4294967296, 10 digits)
+	 * P:         bound port (min 1 d, max 5d (65635))
+	 * F:         filename   (min 1 d )
+	 * S:         size       (min 1 d )
+	 * 0x01, \n:  terminators
+	 */
+	/* AAA = "us", ie. where server normally talks to. */
+	snprintf(buffer, sizeof(buffer), "%u %u", ntohl(newaddr.ip), port);
+	pr_debug("nf_nat_irc: inserting '%s' == %pI4, port %u\n",
+		 buffer, &newaddr.ip, port);
+
+	ret = nf_nat_mangle_tcp_packet(skb, ct, ctinfo, protoff, matchoff,
+				       matchlen, buffer, strlen(buffer));
 	if (ret != NF_ACCEPT)
 		nf_ct_unexpect_related(exp);
+
 	return ret;
 }

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