linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] net: ping: check minimum size on ICMP header length

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Date:   Mon, 05 Dec 2016 13:19:32 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     keescook@...omium.org
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, mchong@...gle.com, i@...nker017.me,
        kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, jmorris@...ei.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org,
        kaber@...sh.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: ping: check minimum size on ICMP header length

From: Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2016 16:58:53 -0800

> diff --git a/net/ipv4/ping.c b/net/ipv4/ping.c
> index 205e2000d395..8257be3f032c 100644
> --- a/net/ipv4/ping.c
> +++ b/net/ipv4/ping.c
> @@ -654,7 +654,7 @@ int ping_common_sendmsg(int family, struct msghdr *msg, size_t len,
>  			void *user_icmph, size_t icmph_len) {
>  	u8 type, code;
>  
> -	if (len > 0xFFFF)
> +	if (len > 0xFFFF || len < icmph_len)
>  		return -EMSGSIZE;

As suggested by Lorenzo, please use -EINVAL here.

Thanks.