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

Khaled Elmously khalid.elmously at canonical.com
Tue Jan 30 06:22:07 UTC 2018


On 2018-01-09 11:30:19 , Po-Hsu Lin wrote:
> 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..
>  	 */

NACK for Zesty because it's EOL.

Ack for Trusty:
Acked-by: Khalid Elmously <khalid.elmously at canonical.com>




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