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SubjectRe: [PATCH nf v2] netfilter/osf: avoid OOB read
Wander Lairson Costa <wander@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 31, 2023 at 10:37 AM Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> wrote:
> >
> > Wander Lairson Costa <wander@redhat.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > diff --git a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_osf.c b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_osf.c
> > > index 8f1bfa6ccc2d..13fedf2aaa0f 100644
> > > --- a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_osf.c
> > > +++ b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_osf.c
> > > @@ -315,6 +315,9 @@ static int nfnl_osf_add_callback(struct sk_buff *skb,
> > >
> > > f = nla_data(osf_attrs[OSF_ATTR_FINGER]);
> > >
> > > + if (f->opt_num > ARRAY_SIZE(f->opt))
> > > + return -EINVAL;
> > > +
> >
> > Hmm, this isn't enough; as far as I can see there is no validation
> > whatsoever.
> >
>
> I didn't get it. It guarantees there is no OOB read of the opt array.

Sorry. This is enough to validate opt_num.

But other members need validation too.

> > This should also check that all of:
> >
> > char genre[MAXGENRELEN];
> > char version[MAXGENRELEN];
> > char subtype[MAXGENRELEN];
> >
> > ... have a NUL byte. You could use strnlen() == ARRAY_SIZE() -> EINVAL
> > for those.
> >
>
> I think the correct way would be memchr(genre/version/subtype, 0, MAXGENRELEN).

I don't really care how it looks like, just that its clear that
it is supposed to catch and reject non-null terminated c strings

:-)

> > Maybe there is more to be validated. I did not followup with all the
> >
>
> I focused on the reported issue mainly because I am unfamiliar with
> the Netfilter layer. Let me take a deeper look.

I don't think there is anyone really familiar with OSF infra, it
was added quite a while back.

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