Re: net/netfilter/xt_LOG.c:43: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments

From: Kees Cook
Date: Mon Jun 30 2014 - 14:06:28 EST


On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 10:39 AM, Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 10:05:01AM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
>> On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 7:07 AM, Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > tree: git://internal_merge_and_test_tree devel-ant-um-201406281943
>> > head: fbb9065499371b760e0543f2ff66fde4778b46ae
>> > commit: 2af37708d3ce0ae78898051ea76bc7c5f683171c [30/31] Merge 'nftables/master' into devel-ant-um-201406281943
>> > config: make ARCH=avr32 atngw100_defconfig
>> >
>> > All error/warnings:
>> >
>> > net/netfilter/xt_LOG.c: In function 'log_tg':
>> >>> net/netfilter/xt_LOG.c:43: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments
>> >
>> > vim +43 net/netfilter/xt_LOG.c
>> >
>> > 6939c33a Richard Weinberger 2012-02-10 27 #include <linux/netfilter/xt_LOG.h>
>> > 6939c33a Richard Weinberger 2012-02-10 28 #include <linux/netfilter_ipv6/ip6_tables.h>
>> > 6939c33a Richard Weinberger 2012-02-10 29 #include <net/netfilter/nf_log.h>
>> > 6939c33a Richard Weinberger 2012-02-10 30
>> > 6939c33a Richard Weinberger 2012-02-10 31 static unsigned int
>> > 6939c33a Richard Weinberger 2012-02-10 32 log_tg(struct sk_buff *skb, const struct xt_action_param *par)
>> > 6939c33a Richard Weinberger 2012-02-10 33 {
>> > 6939c33a Richard Weinberger 2012-02-10 34 const struct xt_log_info *loginfo = par->targinfo;
>> > 6939c33a Richard Weinberger 2012-02-10 35 struct nf_loginfo li;
>> > 8cdb46da Hans Schillstrom 2013-05-15 36 struct net *net = dev_net(par->in ? par->in : par->out);
>> > 6939c33a Richard Weinberger 2012-02-10 37
>> > 6939c33a Richard Weinberger 2012-02-10 38 li.type = NF_LOG_TYPE_LOG;
>> > 6939c33a Richard Weinberger 2012-02-10 39 li.u.log.level = loginfo->level;
>> > 6939c33a Richard Weinberger 2012-02-10 40 li.u.log.logflags = loginfo->logflags;
>> > 6939c33a Richard Weinberger 2012-02-10 41
>> > fab4085f Pablo Neira Ayuso 2014-06-18 42 nf_log_packet(net, par->family, par->hooknum, skb, par->in, par->out,
>> > fab4085f Pablo Neira Ayuso 2014-06-18 @43 &li, loginfo->prefix);
>>
>> This needs to be:
>>
>> nf_log_packet(net, par->family, par->hooknum, skb, par->in, par->out,
>> &li, "%s", loginfo->prefix);
>>
>> Without this, any format strings contained by "prefix" can get
>> processed and leak kernel contents.
>
>
> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/pablo/nf-next.git/commit/?id=ca1aa54f272d47bec77baa292f803df7a81f966b

Ah-ha! Perfect, thanks! :)

-Kees

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Kees Cook
Chrome OS Security
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