Re: [Problem] Linux 2.4.5-ac17 ipt_unclean 'fixes'

From: Rusty Russell (rusty@rustcorp.com.au)
Date: Mon Jul 16 2001 - 05:28:45 EST

In message <20010714170021.B1391@dok.org> you write:
> today) but there seems to be a problem with the ipt_unclean fixes by Rusty
> Russell. ANY incoming packets from any interface (ppp0 and eth0) are
> marked as 'unclean' with some variation on the following syslog entry:
>
> Jul 8 23:16:04 paranoia kernel: ipt_unclean: TCP option 3 at 37 too long

Please try this patch which fixes this as well, which is in Linus'
pre-patches.

Rusty. 

--
Premature optmztion is rt of all evl. --DK

diff -urN linux-2.4.6/net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_unclean.c linux-2.4.6-f1/net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_unclean.c
--- linux-2.4.6/net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_unclean.c	Wed Jul  4 21:27:32 2001
+++ linux-2.4.6-f1/net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_unclean.c	Thu Jul  5 19:16:00 2001
@@ -268,6 +268,7 @@
 	  int embedded)
 {
 	u_int8_t *opt = (u_int8_t *)tcph;
+	u_int8_t *endhdr = (u_int8_t *)tcph + tcph->doff * 4;
 	u_int8_t tcpflags;
 	int end_of_options = 0;
 	size_t i;
@@ -373,7 +374,7 @@
 				return 0;
 			}
 			/* CHECK: oversize options. */
-			else if (opt[i+1] + i >= tcph->doff * 4) {
+			else if (&opt[i] + opt[i+1] > endhdr) {
 				limpk("TCP option %u at %Zu too long\n",
 				      (unsigned int) opt[i], i);
 				return 0;
@@ -392,6 +393,7 @@
 check_ip(struct iphdr *iph, size_t length, int embedded)
 {
 	u_int8_t *opt = (u_int8_t *)iph;
+	u_int8_t *endhdr = (u_int8_t *)iph + iph->ihl * 4;
 	int end_of_options = 0;
 	void *protoh;
 	size_t datalen;
@@ -444,7 +446,7 @@
 				return 0;
 			}
 			/* CHECK: oversize options. */
-			else if (opt[i+1] + i > iph->ihl * 4) {
+			else if (&opt[i] + opt[i+1] > endhdr) {
 				limpk("IP option %u at %u too long\n",
 				      opt[i], i);
 				return 0;
-
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