[PATCH net] sctp: bound the auth_chunks copy length in SCTP_LOCAL_AUTH_CHUNKS
From: Jun Yang
Date: Thu Jul 30 2026 - 05:13:06 EST
From: Jun Yang <junvyyang@xxxxxxxxxxx>
sctp_getsockopt_local_auth_chunks() copies ntohs(length) -
sizeof(paramhdr) bytes out of ch->chunks without bounding the count.
For an association ch is the fixed-size asoc->c.auth_chunks[] array
(sizeof(struct sctp_paramhdr) + SCTP_AUTH_MAX_CHUNKS bytes), whose length
field is restored from the received state cookie by sctp_unpack_cookie()
and is not validated against the array size. A cookie carrying an
oversized length makes copy_to_user() read past the array (out-of-bounds
read).
Bound the chunk count to SCTP_AUTH_MAX_CHUNKS before the copy. That is
the most valid chunk bytes either source can hold, so legitimate output
is unchanged, and it also covers a stored length smaller than the
parameter header, which would otherwise underflow.
Fixes: 65b07e5d0d09 ("[SCTP]: API updates to suport SCTP-AUTH extensions.")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx
Reported-by: TencentOS Corvus AI <corvus@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jun Yang <junvyyang@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/sctp/socket.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/sctp/socket.c b/net/sctp/socket.c
index 9a6da4e0d741..3e9dacb772a0 100644
--- a/net/sctp/socket.c
+++ b/net/sctp/socket.c
@@ -7109,6 +7109,12 @@ static int sctp_getsockopt_local_auth_chunks(struct sock *sk, int len,
goto num;
num_chunks = ntohs(ch->param_hdr.length) - sizeof(struct sctp_paramhdr);
+ /* asoc->c.auth_chunks[] holds at most SCTP_AUTH_MAX_CHUNKS bytes but its
+ * length is restored from the state cookie and is not bounded here;
+ * clamp so an oversized length cannot read past the array.
+ */
+ if (num_chunks > SCTP_AUTH_MAX_CHUNKS)
+ num_chunks = SCTP_AUTH_MAX_CHUNKS;
if (len < sizeof(struct sctp_authchunks) + num_chunks)
return -EINVAL;
--
2.55.0