[PATCH] net: ncsi: clamp filter table counts in GP response handling

From: Vamsi Krishna Kattamuri

Date: Fri Oct 02 2026 - 06:31:05 EST


ncsi_rsp_handler_gp() iterates over the MAC address and VLAN filter
tables using the counts from the Get Parameters response itself,
rsp->mac_cnt and rsp->vlan_cnt. The arrays it writes into, however,
were allocated by the Get Controller Capabilities handler from the
independent rsp->uc_cnt, rsp->mc_cnt, rsp->mixed_cnt and rsp->vlan_cnt
fields.

A malicious or buggy NCSI device can therefore report contradictory
counts in the two responses - for example a GC response advertising
a single unicast address filter followed by a GP response with
mac_cnt = 255. The GP handler then memcpy()s 255 MAC addresses into
the 6-byte kzalloc()ed buffer, a heap out-of-bounds write of roughly
1.5KB of device-controlled data, and the same applies to vlan_cnt
versus the vids[] array.

The loop indices are additionally used as bit numbers for
set_bit()/clear_bit() on the u64 filter bitmaps, so any count larger
than 64 writes out-of-bounds bits into struct ncsi_channel.

Clamp both loops to the number of entries actually allocated for the
channel and to the capacity of the bitmap word, mirroring the
validation the SVF and SMA handlers already apply to their indices.

Fixes: 138635cc27c9 ("net/ncsi: NCSI response packet handler")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Vamsi Krishna Kattamuri <kattamurivamsikrishna17@xxxxxxxxx>
---
net/ncsi/ncsi-rsp.c | 7 +++++--
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/ncsi/ncsi-rsp.c b/net/ncsi/ncsi-rsp.c
index fbd84bc8026a..fa1ed405dfbb 100644
--- a/net/ncsi/ncsi-rsp.c
+++ b/net/ncsi/ncsi-rsp.c
@@ -883,7 +883,9 @@ static int ncsi_rsp_handler_gp(struct ncsi_request *nr)
ncmf = &nc->mac_filter;
spin_lock_irqsave(&nc->lock, flags);
bitmap = &ncmf->bitmap;
- for (i = 0; i < rsp->mac_cnt; i++, pdata += 6) {
+ for (i = 0; i < rsp->mac_cnt &&
+ i < ncmf->n_uc + ncmf->n_mc + ncmf->n_mixed &&
+ i < sizeof(ncmf->bitmap) * 8; i++, pdata += 6) {
if (!(enable & (0x1 << i)))
clear_bit(i, bitmap);
else
@@ -898,7 +900,8 @@ static int ncsi_rsp_handler_gp(struct ncsi_request *nr)
ncvf = &nc->vlan_filter;
bitmap = &ncvf->bitmap;
spin_lock_irqsave(&nc->lock, flags);
- for (i = 0; i < rsp->vlan_cnt; i++, pdata += 2) {
+ for (i = 0; i < rsp->vlan_cnt && i < ncvf->n_vids &&
+ i < sizeof(ncvf->bitmap) * 8; i++, pdata += 2) {
if (!(enable & (0x1 << i)))
clear_bit(i, bitmap);
else
--
2.47.3