[CVE-2017-18017][Trusty][Zesty][PATCH 1/1] netfilter: xt_TCPMSS: add more sanity tests on tcph->doff

Po-Hsu Lin po-hsu.lin at canonical.com
Tue Jan 9 03:30:19 UTC 2018


From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet at google.com>

CVE-2017-18017

Denys provided an awesome KASAN report pointing to an use
after free in xt_TCPMSS

I have provided three patches to fix this issue, either in xt_TCPMSS or
in xt_tcpudp.c. It seems xt_TCPMSS patch has the smallest possible
impact.

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet at google.com>
Reported-by: Denys Fedoryshchenko <nuclearcat at nuclearcat.com>
Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo at netfilter.org>
(cherry picked from commit 2638fd0f92d4397884fd991d8f4925cb3f081901)
Signed-off-by: Po-Hsu Lin <po-hsu.lin at canonical.com>
---
 net/netfilter/xt_TCPMSS.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/xt_TCPMSS.c b/net/netfilter/xt_TCPMSS.c
index e762de5..6531d70 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/xt_TCPMSS.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/xt_TCPMSS.c
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ tcpmss_mangle_packet(struct sk_buff *skb,
 	tcph = (struct tcphdr *)(skb_network_header(skb) + tcphoff);
 	tcp_hdrlen = tcph->doff * 4;
 
-	if (len < tcp_hdrlen)
+	if (len < tcp_hdrlen || tcp_hdrlen < sizeof(struct tcphdr))
 		return -1;
 
 	if (info->mss == XT_TCPMSS_CLAMP_PMTU) {
@@ -156,6 +156,10 @@ tcpmss_mangle_packet(struct sk_buff *skb,
 	if (len > tcp_hdrlen)
 		return 0;
 
+	/* tcph->doff has 4 bits, do not wrap it to 0 */
+	if (tcp_hdrlen >= 15 * 4)
+		return 0;
+
 	/*
 	 * MSS Option not found ?! add it..
 	 */
-- 
2.7.4





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