netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/1] netfilter: nat: add range checks for access to nf_nat

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Message-ID: <20200731175115.GA16982@salvia>
Date:   Fri, 31 Jul 2020 19:51:15 +0200
From:   Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@...filter.org>
To:     William Mcvicker <willmcvicker@...gle.com>
Cc:     security@...nel.org, Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@...ckhole.kfki.hu>,
        Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>,
        netfilter-devel@...r.kernel.org, coreteam@...filter.org,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        kernel-team@...roid.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] netfilter: nat: add range checks for access to
 nf_nat_l[34]protos[]

Hi William,

On Fri, Jul 31, 2020 at 12:26:11AM +0000, William Mcvicker wrote:
> Hi Pablo,
> 
> Yes, I believe this oops is only triggered by userspace when the user
> specifically passes in an invalid nf_nat_l3protos index. I'm happy to re-work
> the patch to check for this in ctnetlink_create_conntrack().

Great.

Note that this code does not exist in the tree anymore. I'm not sure
if this problem still exists upstream, this patch does not apply to
nf.git. This fix should only go for -stable maintainers.

> > BTW, do you have a Fixes: tag for this? This will be useful for
> > -stable maintainer to pick up this fix.
> 
> Regarding the Fixes: tag, I don't have one offhand since this bug was reported
> to me, but I can search through the code history to find the commit that
> exposed this vulnerability.

That would be great.

Thank you.