netdev - Re: [SECURITY] [PATCH] Prevent crashing when parsing bad X.25 facilities

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Date:	Thu, 11 Nov 2010 18:49:02 -0500
From:	Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@...curity.com>
To:	Andrew Hendry <andrew.hendry@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, security@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [SECURITY] [PATCH] Prevent crashing when parsing bad X.25
 facilities

I can take care of it.  Do you want me to just remove those items from
the printk statement?

-Dan

On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 10:24 +1100, Andrew Hendry wrote:
> Tested ok, although I noticed the CLASS_D default: message tries to
> print the facility type, length and 4 values, while it may only have 2
> values. Just needs p[4] and p[5] taken out. Do you want me to spin a
> secondary patch or do you want to put them together?
> 
> Acked-by: Andrew Hendry <andrew.hendry@...il.com>
> 
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 9:43 AM, Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@...curity.com> wrote:
> > Sorry I didn't catch this at the same time as my previous report so it
> > could be included in one patch.
> >
> > On parsing malformed X.25 facilities, decrementing the remaining length
> > may cause it to underflow.  Since the length is an unsigned integer,
> > this will result in the loop continuing until the kernel crashes.
> >
> > This patch adds checks to ensure decrementing the remaining length does
> > not cause it to wrap around.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@...curity.com>
> > CC: stable <stable@...nel.org>
> > ---
> >  net/x25/x25_facilities.c |    8 ++++++++
> >  1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/net/x25/x25_facilities.c b/net/x25/x25_facilities.c
> > index 3a8c4c4..bef8330 100644
> > --- a/net/x25/x25_facilities.c
> > +++ b/net/x25/x25_facilities.c
> > @@ -61,6 +61,8 @@ int x25_parse_facilities(struct sk_buff *skb, struct x25_facilities *facilities,
> >        while (len > 0) {
> >                switch (*p & X25_FAC_CLASS_MASK) {
> >                case X25_FAC_CLASS_A:
> > +                       if (len < 2)
> > +                               return 0;
> >                        switch (*p) {
> >                        case X25_FAC_REVERSE:
> >                                if((p[1] & 0x81) == 0x81) {
> > @@ -104,6 +106,8 @@ int x25_parse_facilities(struct sk_buff *skb, struct x25_facilities *facilities,
> >                        len -= 2;
> >                        break;
> >                case X25_FAC_CLASS_B:
> > +                       if (len < 3)
> > +                               return 0;
> >                        switch (*p) {
> >                        case X25_FAC_PACKET_SIZE:
> >                                facilities->pacsize_in  = p[1];
> > @@ -125,6 +129,8 @@ int x25_parse_facilities(struct sk_buff *skb, struct x25_facilities *facilities,
> >                        len -= 3;
> >                        break;
> >                case X25_FAC_CLASS_C:
> > +                       if (len < 4)
> > +                               return 0;
> >                        printk(KERN_DEBUG "X.25: unknown facility %02X, "
> >                               "values %02X, %02X, %02X\n",
> >                               p[0], p[1], p[2], p[3]);
> > @@ -132,6 +138,8 @@ int x25_parse_facilities(struct sk_buff *skb, struct x25_facilities *facilities,
> >                        len -= 4;
> >                        break;
> >                case X25_FAC_CLASS_D:
> > +                       if (len < p[1] + 2)
> > +                               return 0;
> >                        switch (*p) {
> >                        case X25_FAC_CALLING_AE:
> >                                if (p[1] > X25_MAX_DTE_FACIL_LEN || p[1] <= 1)
> >
> >
> >


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