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From: Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@cogentembedded•com>
To: Zhouyi Zhou <zhouzhouyi@gmail•com>,
	eric.dumazet@gmail•com, pablo@netfilter•org, kaber@trash•net,
	kadlec@blackhole•kfki.hu, davem@davemloft•net,
	netfilter-devel@vger•kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter•org,
	netdev@vger•kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org,
	fw@strlen•de, gnomes@lxorguk•ukuu.org.uk
Cc: Zhouyi Zhou <yizhouzhou@ict•ac.cn>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V5] netfilter: h323: avoid potential attack
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 13:55:27 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56B08B1F.9050406@cogentembedded.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1454391454-22359-1-git-send-email-zhouzhouyi@gmail.com>

Hello.

On 2/2/2016 8:37 AM, Zhouyi Zhou wrote:

> I think hackers chould build a malicious h323 packet to overflow
> the pointer p which will panic during the memcpy(addr, p, len)
> For example, he may fabricate a very large taddr->ipAddress.ip.
>
> In order to avoid this, I add a valid memory reference check in
>   get_h2x5_addr functions.
>
> As suggested by Eric, this module is protected by a lock (nf_h323_lock)
> so adding a variable h323_buffer_valid_bytes that would contain
> the number of valid bytes would not require to change prototypes of
> get_h2x5_addr.
>
> Signed-off-by: Zhouyi Zhou <yizhouzhou@ict•ac.cn>
>
> ---
>   net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_h323_main.c | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 27 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_h323_main.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_h323_main.c
> index 9511af0..21665ec 100644
> --- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_h323_main.c
> +++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_h323_main.c
> @@ -110,6 +110,25 @@ int (*nat_q931_hook) (struct sk_buff *skb,
>
>   static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(nf_h323_lock);
>   static char *h323_buffer;
> +static int h323_buffer_valid_bytes;
> +
> +static bool h323_buffer_ref_valid(void *p, int len)
> +{
> +
> +	if ((unsigned long)len > h323_buffer_valid_bytes) {
> +		return false;
> +	}

    {} not needed.

> +
> +	if (p + len > (void *)h323_buffer + h323_buffer_valid_bytes) {
> +		return false;
> +	}

    Likewise.

> +
> +	if (p < (void *)h323_buffer) {
> +		return false;
> +	}

    Likewise.

[...]

MBR, Sergei

      reply	other threads:[~2016-02-02 10:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-02-02  5:37 [PATCH V5] netfilter: h323: avoid potential attack Zhouyi Zhou
2016-02-02 10:55 ` Sergei Shtylyov [this message]

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