Re: [PATCH net] tipc: check minimum bearer MTU

From: Ying Xue
Date: Wed Nov 30 2016 - 05:29:00 EST


On 11/30/2016 05:57 PM, Michal Kubecek wrote:
Qian Zhang (åè) reported a potential socket buffer overflow in
tipc_msg_build() which is also known as CVE-2016-8632: due to
insufficient checks, a buffer overflow can occur if MTU is too short for
even tipc headers. As anyone can set device MTU in a user/net namespace,
this issue can be abused by a regular user.

As agreed in the discussion on Ben Hutchings' original patch, we should
check the MTU at the moment a bearer is attached rather than for each
processed packet. We also need to repeat the check when bearer MTU is
adjusted to new device MTU. UDP case also needs a check to avoid
overflow when calculating bearer MTU.

Fixes: b97bf3fd8f6a ("[TIPC] Initial merge")
Signed-off-by: Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@xxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Qian Zhang (åè) <zhangqian-c@xxxxxx>
---
net/tipc/bearer.c | 9 +++++++--
net/tipc/bearer.h | 13 +++++++++++++
net/tipc/udp_media.c | 5 +++++
3 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/tipc/bearer.c b/net/tipc/bearer.c
index 975dbeb60ab0..dd4b19e8bb43 100644
--- a/net/tipc/bearer.c
+++ b/net/tipc/bearer.c
@@ -421,6 +421,10 @@ int tipc_enable_l2_media(struct net *net, struct tipc_bearer *b,
dev = dev_get_by_name(net, driver_name);
if (!dev)
return -ENODEV;
+ if (tipc_check_mtu(dev, 0)) {
+ dev_put(dev);
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }

/* Associate TIPC bearer with L2 bearer */
rcu_assign_pointer(b->media_ptr, dev);
@@ -610,8 +614,6 @@ static int tipc_l2_device_event(struct notifier_block *nb, unsigned long evt,
if (!b)
return NOTIFY_DONE;

- b->mtu = dev->mtu;
-
switch (evt) {
case NETDEV_CHANGE:
if (netif_carrier_ok(dev))
@@ -624,6 +626,9 @@ static int tipc_l2_device_event(struct notifier_block *nb, unsigned long evt,
tipc_reset_bearer(net, b);
break;
case NETDEV_CHANGEMTU:
+ if (tipc_check_mtu(dev, 0))
+ return -EINVAL;
+ b->mtu = dev->mtu;
tipc_reset_bearer(net, b);
break;
case NETDEV_CHANGEADDR:
diff --git a/net/tipc/bearer.h b/net/tipc/bearer.h
index 78892e2f53e3..1a0b7434ec24 100644
--- a/net/tipc/bearer.h
+++ b/net/tipc/bearer.h
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@

#include "netlink.h"
#include "core.h"
+#include "msg.h"
#include <net/genetlink.h>

#define MAX_MEDIA 3
@@ -59,6 +60,9 @@
#define TIPC_MEDIA_TYPE_IB 2
#define TIPC_MEDIA_TYPE_UDP 3

+/* minimum bearer MTU */
+#define TIPC_MIN_BEARER_MTU (MAX_H_SIZE + INT_H_SIZE)
+
/**
* struct tipc_media_addr - destination address used by TIPC bearers
* @value: address info (format defined by media)
@@ -215,4 +219,13 @@ void tipc_bearer_xmit(struct net *net, u32 bearer_id,
void tipc_bearer_bc_xmit(struct net *net, u32 bearer_id,
struct sk_buff_head *xmitq);

+/* check if device MTU is sufficient for tipc headers */
+inline bool tipc_check_mtu(struct net_device *dev, unsigned int reserve)

It's unnecessary to explicitly declare a function as inline, instead please let GCC smartly decide this.

+{
+ if (dev->mtu >= TIPC_MIN_BEARER_MTU + reserve)
+ return false;
+ netdev_warn(dev, "MTU too low for tipc bearer\n");
+ return true;
+}
+
#endif /* _TIPC_BEARER_H */
diff --git a/net/tipc/udp_media.c b/net/tipc/udp_media.c
index 78cab9c5a445..376ed3e3ed46 100644
--- a/net/tipc/udp_media.c
+++ b/net/tipc/udp_media.c
@@ -697,6 +697,11 @@ static int tipc_udp_enable(struct net *net, struct tipc_bearer *b,
udp_conf.local_ip.s_addr = htonl(INADDR_ANY);
udp_conf.use_udp_checksums = false;
ub->ifindex = dev->ifindex;
+ if (tipc_check_mtu(dev, sizeof(struct iphdr) +
+ sizeof(struct udphdr))) {
+ err = -EINVAL;
+ goto err;
+ }

For UDP bearer, it seems insufficient for us to check MTU size only when UDP bearer is enabled. Meanwhile, we should update MTU size for UDP bearer with Path MTU discovery protocol once MTU size is changed after bearer is enabled.

Regards,
Ying

b->mtu = dev->mtu - sizeof(struct iphdr)
- sizeof(struct udphdr);
#if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IPV6)