[PATCH] ipv6: sr: fix 16-byte kernel heap leak in seg6_genl_set_tunsrc()
From: Hui Peng
Date: Sat Sep 19 2026 - 16:49:03 EST
seg6_genl_policy[SEG6_ATTR_DST] uses NLA_BINARY with
.len = sizeof(struct in6_addr), which only caps the maximum attribute
length and allows 0-byte SEG6_ATTR_DST attributes.
seg6_genl_set_tunsrc() then unconditionally copies
sizeof(struct in6_addr) (16 bytes) from
nla_data(info->attrs[SEG6_ATTR_DST]) into sdata->tun_src via kmemdup(),
reading 16 bytes of uninitialized skb->head heap memory past skb->tail
and exposing it to userspace via SEG6_CMD_GET_TUNSRC.
Enforce NLA_POLICY_EXACT_LEN(sizeof(struct in6_addr)) in
seg6_genl_policy and validate nla_len(info->attrs[SEG6_ATTR_DST]) in
seg6_genl_set_tunsrc().
Fixes: 915d7e5e5930 ("ipv6: sr: add code base for control plane support of SR-IPv6")
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Hui Peng <benquike@xxxxxxxxx>
---
diff --git a/net/ipv6/seg6.c b/net/ipv6/seg6.c
--- a/net/ipv6/seg6.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/seg6.c
@@ -138,8 +138,8 @@ out:
static struct genl_family seg6_genl_family;
static const struct nla_policy seg6_genl_policy[SEG6_ATTR_MAX + 1] = {
- [SEG6_ATTR_DST] = { .type = NLA_BINARY,
- .len = sizeof(struct in6_addr) },
+ [SEG6_ATTR_DST] =
+ NLA_POLICY_EXACT_LEN(sizeof(struct in6_addr)),
[SEG6_ATTR_DSTLEN] = { .type = NLA_S32, },
[SEG6_ATTR_HMACKEYID] = { .type = NLA_U32, },
[SEG6_ATTR_SECRET] = { .type = NLA_BINARY, },
@@ -242,7 +242,8 @@ static int seg6_genl_set_tunsrc(struct sk_buff *skb, struct genl_info *info)
sdata = seg6_pernet(net);
- if (!info->attrs[SEG6_ATTR_DST])
+ if (!info->attrs[SEG6_ATTR_DST] ||
+ nla_len(info->attrs[SEG6_ATTR_DST]) != sizeof(struct in6_addr))
return -EINVAL;
val = nla_data(info->attrs[SEG6_ATTR_DST]);
--
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