[Z/Y/X/T SRU] Fix CVE-2017-9242

Stefan Bader stefan.bader at canonical.com
Wed Jun 7 10:52:07 UTC 2017


Patch applies as cherry-pick to all releases. Build-tested on Trusty
amd64.

-Stefan

---

>From 232cd35d0804cc241eb887bb8d4d9b3b9881c64a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet at google.com>
Date: Fri, 19 May 2017 14:17:48 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] ipv6: fix out of bound writes in __ip6_append_data()

Andrey Konovalov and idaifish at gmail.com reported crashes caused by
one skb shared_info being overwritten from __ip6_append_data()

Andrey program lead to following state :

copy -4200 datalen 2000 fraglen 2040
maxfraglen 2040 alloclen 2048 transhdrlen 0 offset 0 fraggap 6200

The skb_copy_and_csum_bits(skb_prev, maxfraglen, data + transhdrlen,
fraggap, 0); is overwriting skb->head and skb_shared_info

Since we apparently detect this rare condition too late, move the
code earlier to even avoid allocating skb and risking crashes.

Once again, many thanks to Andrey and syzkaller team.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet at google.com>
Reported-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl at google.com>
Tested-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl at google.com>
Reported-by: <idaifish at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>

CVE-2017-9242

(cherry-picked from  232cd35d0804cc241eb887bb8d4d9b3b9881c64a)
Signed-off-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader at canonical.com>
---
 net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 15 ++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
index d4a31be..bf8a58a 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_output.c
@@ -1466,6 +1466,11 @@ static int __ip6_append_data(struct sock *sk,
 			 */
 			alloclen += sizeof(struct frag_hdr);
 
+			copy = datalen - transhdrlen - fraggap;
+			if (copy < 0) {
+				err = -EINVAL;
+				goto error;
+			}
 			if (transhdrlen) {
 				skb = sock_alloc_send_skb(sk,
 						alloclen + hh_len,
@@ -1515,13 +1520,9 @@ static int __ip6_append_data(struct sock *sk,
 				data += fraggap;
 				pskb_trim_unique(skb_prev, maxfraglen);
 			}
-			copy = datalen - transhdrlen - fraggap;
-
-			if (copy < 0) {
-				err = -EINVAL;
-				kfree_skb(skb);
-				goto error;
-			} else if (copy > 0 && getfrag(from, data + transhdrlen, offset, copy, fraggap, skb) < 0) {
+			if (copy > 0 &&
+			    getfrag(from, data + transhdrlen, offset,
+				    copy, fraggap, skb) < 0) {
 				err = -EFAULT;
 				kfree_skb(skb);
 				goto error;
-- 
2.7.4





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