Re: [PATCH net] ipv6: Fix out-of-bounds access in ipv6_find_tlv()

From: David Ahern
Date: Tue May 23 2023 - 11:21:50 EST


On 5/23/23 2:29 AM, Gavrilov Ilia wrote:
> optlen is fetched without checking whether there is more than one byte to parse.
> It can lead to out-of-bounds access.
>
> Found by InfoTeCS on behalf of Linux Verification Center
> (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE.
>
> Fixes: 3c73a0368e99 ("ipv6: Update ipv6 static library with newly needed functions")

That is not the right Fixes tag; that commit only moved the code.

Fixes: c61a40432509 ("[IPV6]: Find option offset by type.")

> Signed-off-by: Gavrilov Ilia <Ilia.Gavrilov@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> net/ipv6/exthdrs_core.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/net/ipv6/exthdrs_core.c b/net/ipv6/exthdrs_core.c
> index da46c4284676..49e31e4ae7b7 100644
> --- a/net/ipv6/exthdrs_core.c
> +++ b/net/ipv6/exthdrs_core.c
> @@ -143,6 +143,8 @@ int ipv6_find_tlv(const struct sk_buff *skb, int offset, int type)
> optlen = 1;
> break;
> default:
> + if (len < 2)
> + goto bad;
> optlen = nh[offset + 1] + 2;
> if (optlen > len)
> goto bad;

Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@xxxxxxxxxx>