[PATCH 0/3] net: fix three security bugs in NET/ROM and ROSE stacks

From: Mashiro Chen

Date: Tue Apr 07 2026 - 13:17:25 EST


This series fixes three bugs in the Linux kernel AX.25 protocol stack,
submitted on top of Greg Kroah-Hartman's frame-size validation series
(https://lore.kernel.org/r/2026040730-untagged-groin-bbb7@gregkh).

Patch 1 fixes an integer overflow in nr_queue_rx_frame(): nr_sock.fraglen
is declared as unsigned short and accumulates received fragment lengths
without overflow protection. When total received data exceeds 65535 bytes,
fraglen wraps to a small value, causing alloc_skb() to allocate a tiny
buffer followed by a full-length copy -- a heap out-of-bounds write.

Patch 2 fixes nr_find_socket() dispatching incoming NR_INFO frames by
matching only the circuit index/id bytes without validating the source
callsign against the socket's dest_addr. Any node can inject frames into
an existing STATE_3 connection by guessing the circuit ID (the value space
is only 65025 non-zero pairs and IDs are assigned sequentially). Combined
with the fraglen overflow in patch 1, this gives an unauthenticated
attacker a complete heap corruption primitive.

Patch 3 fixes an out-of-bounds read in rose_parse_ccitt(): the function
validates 10 <= l <= 20 but never checks that the remaining buffer is at
least l+2 bytes before calling memcpy(). rose_parse_national() already
performs the equivalent check; this patch adds the same guard.

Mashiro Chen (3):
net: netrom: fix integer overflow in nr_queue_rx_frame()
net: netrom: validate source address in nr_find_socket()
net: rose: fix out-of-bounds read in rose_parse_ccitt()

net/netrom/af_netrom.c | 11 +++++++----
net/netrom/nr_in.c | 10 ++++++++++
net/rose/rose_subr.c | 3 +++
3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

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