Re: [PATCH] ipv4: tcp_input: fix stack out of bounds when parsing TCP options.

From: David Miller
Date: Thu May 30 2019 - 15:36:45 EST


From: Young Xiao <92siuyang@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 29 May 2019 16:10:59 +0800

> The TCP option parsing routines in tcp_parse_options function could
> read one byte out of the buffer of the TCP options.
>
> 1 while (length > 0) {
> 2 int opcode = *ptr++;
> 3 int opsize;
> 4
> 5 switch (opcode) {
> 6 case TCPOPT_EOL:
> 7 return;
> 8 case TCPOPT_NOP: /* Ref: RFC 793 section 3.1 */
> 9 length--;
> 10 continue;
> 11 default:
> 12 opsize = *ptr++; //out of bound access
>
> If length = 1, then there is an access in line2.
> And another access is occurred in line 12.
> This would lead to out-of-bound access.
>
> Therefore, in the patch we check that the available data length is
> larger enough to pase both TCP option code and size.
>
> Signed-off-by: Young Xiao <92siuyang@xxxxxxxxx>

Applied.