From: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail•com>
To: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen•de>
Cc: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter•org>,
"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft•net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google•com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel•org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat•com>,
Phil Sutter <phil@nwl•cc>, Simon Horman <horms@kernel•org>,
Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash•net>,
netfilter-devel@vger•kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter•org,
netdev@vger•kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org,
Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu•edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH nf] netfilter: nf_conntrack_sip: fix OOB read in epaddr_len and ct_sip_parse_header_uri
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2026 09:36:14 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <adhUDoTTSK_N5cU2@SLSGDTSWING002> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <adfEUtiiLzjtKd8m@strlen.de>
On 26-04-09 17:22, Florian Westphal wrote:
> Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail•com> wrote:
> > In epaddr_len() and ct_sip_parse_header_uri(), after sip_parse_addr()
> > successfully parses an IP address, the code checks whether the next
> > character is ':' to determine if a port number follows. However,
> > neither function verifies that the pointer is still within bounds
> > before dereferencing it.
>
> I already queued up:
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/netfilter-devel/patch/20260313195256.2783257-1-qguanni@gmail.com/
>
> for nf-next (I already sent the 'last' PR for 7.0).
>
> Could you check if that resolves the problem you're reporting?
>
> > p = simple_strtoul(c, (char **)&c, 10);
>
> All of these functions require a c-string, which we usually
> don't have with network packet parsing.
>
> IOW, sip helper needs to be audited for these problems
> but I don't know when I can get to it.
Tested-by: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail•com>
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2026-04-09 9:50 [PATCH nf] netfilter: nf_conntrack_sip: fix OOB read in epaddr_len and ct_sip_parse_header_uri Weiming Shi
2026-04-09 15:22 ` Florian Westphal
2026-04-10 1:36 ` Weiming Shi [this message]
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