[PATCH net v3] nfc: llcp: bound SNL TLV parsing to the skb and add length checks
From: Doruk Tan Ozturk
Date: Thu Jun 04 2026 - 11:31:01 EST
nfc_llcp_recv_snl() walked the SNL TLV list using a u16 offset/length
pair derived from skb->len, without bounding reads to the actual skb
data. Three problems followed:
- For a short frame (skb->len < LLCP_HEADER_SIZE), tlv_len underflowed.
- The per-TLV header (type, length) was read without checking that two
bytes remained.
- A declared TLV length could run past the end of the buffer, and an
SDREQ with length == 0 made "service_name_len = length - 1" underflow
(size_t), driving an out-of-bounds read in the following strncmp() /
nfc_llcp_sock_from_sn(). The SDRES case likewise read tlv[2]/tlv[3]
without a length check.
A nearby NFC device can reach this without authentication; LLCP link
activation happens automatically after NFC-DEP.
Walk the TLV list by pointer, bounded by skb_tail_pointer() over the
linear skb data, and validate each TLV declared length before use. Add
explicit length checks for SDREQ (>= 1) and SDRES (exactly 2).
Found by 0sec automated security-research tooling (https://0sec.ai).
Signed-off-by: Doruk Tan Ozturk <doruk@xxxxxxx>
---
v3 (review cleanups, no functional change to the fix):
- Comment that only the linear part of the skb is parsed (David Laight).
- Use int for service_name_len and print the bounded service name
directly with %.*s; drop the min_t()/cast (David Laight).
- Require SDRES length to be exactly 2, not just >= 2 (David Laight).
v2: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20260603135935.62647-1-doruk@xxxxxxx/
- Walk by pointer bounded on skb_tail_pointer(); drop the 16-bit
offset/tlv_len math and fix the short-frame underflow (David Laight).
- Add an SDRES length check alongside SDREQ length >= 1 (David Laight).
- Bound the SDREQ service-name pr_debug to the field length.
- Rebased onto linux-nfc for-next (David Heidelberg).
net/nfc/llcp_core.c | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/nfc/llcp_core.c b/net/nfc/llcp_core.c
index dc65c719f..aed5fe1af 100644
--- a/net/nfc/llcp_core.c
+++ b/net/nfc/llcp_core.c
@@ -1286,10 +1286,9 @@ static void nfc_llcp_recv_snl(struct nfc_llcp_local *local,
{
struct nfc_llcp_sock *llcp_sock;
u8 dsap, ssap, type, length, tid, sap;
- const u8 *tlv;
- u16 tlv_len, offset;
+ const u8 *tlv, *tlv_end;
const char *service_name;
- size_t service_name_len;
+ int service_name_len;
struct nfc_llcp_sdp_tlv *sdp;
HLIST_HEAD(llc_sdres_list);
size_t sdres_tlvs_len;
@@ -1305,22 +1304,34 @@ static void nfc_llcp_recv_snl(struct nfc_llcp_local *local,
return;
}
+ /*
+ * Walk the SNL TLV list in the linear part of the skb only,
+ * bounded by skb_tail_pointer(). Each TLV needs a two-byte
+ * header (type, length) and its declared length must fit before
+ * the end; this also keeps the walk safe for very short frames.
+ */
tlv = &skb->data[LLCP_HEADER_SIZE];
- tlv_len = skb->len - LLCP_HEADER_SIZE;
- offset = 0;
+ tlv_end = skb_tail_pointer(skb);
sdres_tlvs_len = 0;
- while (offset < tlv_len) {
+ while (tlv + 2 < tlv_end) {
type = tlv[0];
length = tlv[1];
+ if (tlv + 2 + length > tlv_end)
+ break;
+
switch (type) {
case LLCP_TLV_SDREQ:
+ if (length < 1)
+ break;
+
tid = tlv[2];
service_name = (char *) &tlv[3];
service_name_len = length - 1;
- pr_debug("Looking for %.16s\n", service_name);
+ pr_debug("Looking for %.*s\n", service_name_len,
+ service_name);
if (service_name_len == strlen("urn:nfc:sn:sdp") &&
!strncmp(service_name, "urn:nfc:sn:sdp",
@@ -1380,6 +1391,9 @@ static void nfc_llcp_recv_snl(struct nfc_llcp_local *local,
break;
case LLCP_TLV_SDRES:
+ if (length != 2)
+ break;
+
mutex_lock(&local->sdreq_lock);
pr_debug("LLCP_TLV_SDRES: searching tid %d\n", tlv[2]);
@@ -1408,7 +1422,6 @@ static void nfc_llcp_recv_snl(struct nfc_llcp_local *local,
break;
}
- offset += length + 2;
tlv += length + 2;
}
--
2.53.0