netdev - Re: [PATCH] xfrm: NULL dereference on allocation failure

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:   Thu, 15 Jun 2017 13:57:40 +0200
From:   Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
To:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
CC:     Trent Jaeger <tjaeger@....psu.edu>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        <kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] xfrm: NULL dereference on allocation failure

On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 01:35:37PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> The default error code in pfkey_msg2xfrm_state() is -ENOBUFS.  We
> added a new call to security_xfrm_state_alloc() which sets "err" to zero
> so there several places where we can return ERR_PTR(0) if kmalloc()
> fails.  The caller is expecting error pointers so it leads to a NULL
> dereference.
> 
> Fixes: df71837d5024 ("[LSM-IPSec]: Security association restriction.")
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>

Also applied, thanks a lot Dan!