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Message-ID: <1307062211.4292.2.camel@dan>
Date:	Thu, 02 Jun 2011 20:50:11 -0400
From:	Dan Rosenberg <drosenberg@...curity.com>
To:	davem@...emloft.net
Cc:	kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, netdev@...r.kernel.org, security@...nel.org
Subject: Re: inet_diag insufficient validation?

On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 11:40 -0400, Dan Rosenberg wrote:

> Finally, I can't seem to find any validation that the reported length of
> the netlink message header doesn't exceed the skb length, as checked in
> some other netlink receive functions, which could result in reading
> beyond the bounds of the socket data.  I could just be missing something
> here though.
> 

And for the second time, I was missing something - this validation
happens in netlink_rcv_skb().

That leaves the infinite loop in bytecode auditing, which I've confirmed
via reproducer.

-Dan

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