Re: [PATCH] Netfilter: Fix integer overflow in net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c

From: Patrick McHardy
Date: Mon Mar 22 2010 - 13:07:38 EST


wzt.wzt@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> The get.size field in the get_entries() interface is not bounded
> correctly. The size is used to determine the total entry size.
> The size is bounded, but can overflow and so the size checks may
> not be sufficient to catch invalid size. Fix it by catching size
> values that would cause overflows before calculating the size.
>
> Signed-off-by: Zhitong Wang <zhitong.wangzt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ---
> net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c | 4 ++++
> net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6_tables.c | 4 ++++
> 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c b/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c
> index 4e7c719..6abd3d2 100644
> --- a/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c
> +++ b/net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c
> @@ -1164,6 +1164,10 @@ get_entries(struct net *net, struct ipt_get_entries __user *uptr, int *len)
> }
> if (copy_from_user(&get, uptr, sizeof(get)) != 0)
> return -EFAULT;
> +
> + if (get.size >= INT_MAX / sizeof(struct ipt_get_entries))
> + return -EINVAL;

I can see that the size might cause an overflow in the addition with
sizeof(struct ipt_get_entries), but that would most likely cause a mismatch
with the actual table size and get aborted (should be fixed anyways I
guess). But I fail to find the overflow you're trying to prevent, which
I guess would be the result of a multiplication.

Please point me to the specific line in question. Thanks :)
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