netdev - Re: [PATCH ipsec] xfrm: Reject optional tunnel/BEET mode templates in outbound policies

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Date: Thu, 11 May 2023 12:03:37 +0200
From: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@...unet.com>
To: Tobias Brunner <tobias@...ongswan.org>
CC: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, "David
 S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH ipsec] xfrm: Reject optional tunnel/BEET mode templates
 in outbound policies

On Tue, May 09, 2023 at 10:59:58AM +0200, Tobias Brunner wrote:
> xfrm_state_find() uses `encap_family` of the current template with
> the passed local and remote addresses to find a matching state.
> If an optional tunnel or BEET mode template is skipped in a mixed-family
> scenario, there could be a mismatch causing an out-of-bounds read as
> the addresses were not replaced to match the family of the next template.
> 
> While there are theoretical use cases for optional templates in outbound
> policies, the only practical one is to skip IPComp states in inbound
> policies if uncompressed packets are received that are handled by an
> implicitly created IPIP state instead.
> 
> Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
> Signed-off-by: Tobias Brunner <tobias@...ongswan.org>
> Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>

Applied, thanks a lot Tobias!