-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Thomas Graf The TCA_ACT_KIND attribute is used without checking its availability when dumping actions therefore leading to a value of 0x4 being dereferenced. The use of strcmp() in tc_lookup_action_n() isn't safe when fed with string from an attribute without enforcing proper NUL termination. Both bugs can be triggered with malformed netlink message and don't require any privileges. Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Chris Wright Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- net/sched/act_api.c | 11 +++++------ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) --- linux-2.6.17.3.orig/net/sched/act_api.c +++ linux-2.6.17.3/net/sched/act_api.c @@ -777,7 +777,7 @@ replay: return ret; } -static char * +static struct rtattr * find_dump_kind(struct nlmsghdr *n) { struct rtattr *tb1, *tb2[TCA_ACT_MAX+1]; @@ -805,7 +805,7 @@ find_dump_kind(struct nlmsghdr *n) return NULL; kind = tb2[TCA_ACT_KIND-1]; - return (char *) RTA_DATA(kind); + return kind; } static int @@ -818,16 +818,15 @@ tc_dump_action(struct sk_buff *skb, stru struct tc_action a; int ret = 0; struct tcamsg *t = (struct tcamsg *) NLMSG_DATA(cb->nlh); - char *kind = find_dump_kind(cb->nlh); + struct rtattr *kind = find_dump_kind(cb->nlh); if (kind == NULL) { printk("tc_dump_action: action bad kind\n"); return 0; } - a_o = tc_lookup_action_n(kind); + a_o = tc_lookup_action(kind); if (a_o == NULL) { - printk("failed to find %s\n", kind); return 0; } @@ -835,7 +834,7 @@ tc_dump_action(struct sk_buff *skb, stru a.ops = a_o; if (a_o->walk == NULL) { - printk("tc_dump_action: %s !capable of dumping table\n", kind); + printk("tc_dump_action: %s !capable of dumping table\n", a_o->kind); goto rtattr_failure; } -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/