netdev - [PATCH] Bug#526329: iproute: Segfault on garbage lladdr

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Date:	Thu, 30 Apr 2009 16:50:50 +0200
From:	Andreas Henriksson <andreas@...al.se>
To:	Timothy Baldwin <T.E.Baldwin99@...bers.leeds.ac.uk>,
	526329@...s.debian.org, Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] Bug#526329: iproute: Segfault on garbage lladdr

On tor, 2009-04-30 at 14:32 +0100, Timothy Baldwin wrote:
> Package: iproute
> Version: 20090324-1
> Severity: minor
> 
> 
> $ ip link set eth0 address help
> "help" is invalid lladdr.
> Segmentation fault
> 
> Desipte the invalid command line arguments it shouldn't crash.
> 

Callers need to check return value from ll_addr_a2n(). Patch below.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Henriksson <andreas@...al.se>


diff --git a/ip/iplink.c b/ip/iplink.c
index 237ea82..55558e3 100644
--- a/ip/iplink.c
+++ b/ip/iplink.c
@@ -200,11 +200,15 @@ int iplink_parse(int argc, char **argv, struct iplink_req *req,
 		} else if (matches(*argv, "address") == 0) {
 			NEXT_ARG();
 			len = ll_addr_a2n(abuf, sizeof(abuf), *argv);
+			if (len < 0)
+				return -1;
 			addattr_l(&req->n, sizeof(*req), IFLA_ADDRESS, abuf, len);
 		} else if (matches(*argv, "broadcast") == 0 ||
 				strcmp(*argv, "brd") == 0) {
 			NEXT_ARG();
 			len = ll_addr_a2n(abuf, sizeof(abuf), *argv);
+			if (len < 0)
+				return -1;
 			addattr_l(&req->n, sizeof(*req), IFLA_BROADCAST, abuf, len);
 		} else if (matches(*argv, "txqueuelen") == 0 ||
 				strcmp(*argv, "qlen") == 0 ||

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