From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
<netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>,
pablo@netfilter.org
Subject: [PATCH net 02/17] netfilter: ebtables: terminate table name before find_table_lock()
Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2026 16:02:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260708140309.19633-3-fw@strlen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260708140309.19633-1-fw@strlen.de>
From: Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
update_counters() and compat_update_counters() forward a user-supplied
32-byte table name to find_table_lock() without NUL-terminating it. On a
lookup miss, find_inlist_lock() calls try_then_request_module(..., "%s%s",
"ebtable_", name), and vsnprintf() reads past the name field and the
stack object until it hits a zero byte.
BUG: KASAN: stack-out-of-bounds in string (lib/vsprintf.c:648 lib/vsprintf.c:730)
Read of size 1 at addr ffff8880119dfb20 by task exploit/147
Call Trace:
...
string (lib/vsprintf.c:648 lib/vsprintf.c:730)
vsnprintf (lib/vsprintf.c:2945)
__request_module (kernel/module/kmod.c:150)
do_update_counters.isra.0 (net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c:371 net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c:380)
update_counters (net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c:1440)
do_ebt_set_ctl (net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c:2573)
nf_setsockopt (net/netfilter/nf_sockopt.c:101)
ip_setsockopt (net/ipv4/ip_sockglue.c:1424)
raw_setsockopt (net/ipv4/raw.c:847)
__sys_setsockopt (net/socket.c:2393)
...
compat_do_replace() shares the same unterminated name via
compat_copy_ebt_replace_from_user(); terminate it there too so all
find_table_lock() callers behave alike. The other callers already
terminate the name after the copy.
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Fixes: 81e675c227ec ("netfilter: ebtables: add CONFIG_COMPAT support")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
---
net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c b/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c
index f20c039e44c8..5b74ff827493 100644
--- a/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c
+++ b/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c
@@ -1434,6 +1434,8 @@ static int update_counters(struct net *net, sockptr_t arg, unsigned int len)
if (copy_from_sockptr(&hlp, arg, sizeof(hlp)))
return -EFAULT;
+ hlp.name[sizeof(hlp.name) - 1] = '\0';
+
if (len != sizeof(hlp) + hlp.num_counters * sizeof(struct ebt_counter))
return -EINVAL;
@@ -2273,6 +2275,8 @@ static int compat_copy_ebt_replace_from_user(struct ebt_replace *repl,
memcpy(repl, &tmp, offsetof(struct ebt_replace, hook_entry));
+ repl->name[sizeof(repl->name) - 1] = '\0';
+
/* starting with hook_entry, 32 vs. 64 bit structures are different */
for (i = 0; i < NF_BR_NUMHOOKS; i++)
repl->hook_entry[i] = compat_ptr(tmp.hook_entry[i]);
@@ -2395,6 +2399,8 @@ static int compat_update_counters(struct net *net, sockptr_t arg,
if (copy_from_sockptr(&hlp, arg, sizeof(hlp)))
return -EFAULT;
+ hlp.name[sizeof(hlp.name) - 1] = '\0';
+
/* try real handler in case userland supplied needed padding */
if (len != sizeof(hlp) + hlp.num_counters * sizeof(struct ebt_counter))
return update_counters(net, arg, len);
--
2.54.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-07-08 14:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-08 14:02 [PATCH net 00/17] netfilter: updates for net Florian Westphal
2026-07-08 14:02 ` [PATCH net 01/17] netfilter: nf_conntrack_reasm: guard mac_header adjustment after IPv6 defrag Florian Westphal
2026-07-09 9:50 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
2026-07-08 14:02 ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2026-07-08 14:02 ` [PATCH net 03/17] netfilter: ebtables: zero chainstack array Florian Westphal
2026-07-08 14:02 ` [PATCH net 04/17] netfilter: ebtables: module names must be null-terminated Florian Westphal
2026-07-08 14:02 ` [PATCH net 05/17] netfilter: nft_lookup: fix catchall element handling with inverted lookups Florian Westphal
2026-07-08 14:02 ` [PATCH net 06/17] netfilter: ipset: mark the rcu locked areas properly Florian Westphal
2026-07-08 14:02 ` [PATCH net 07/17] netfilter: ipset: exclude gc when resize is in progress Florian Westphal
2026-07-08 14:03 ` [PATCH net 08/17] netfilter: ipset: cleanup the add/del backlog when resize failed Florian Westphal
2026-07-08 14:03 ` [PATCH net 09/17] netfilter: ipset: allocate the proper memory for the generic hash structure Florian Westphal
2026-07-08 14:03 ` [PATCH net 10/17] netfilter: flowtable: use dst in this direction when pushing IPIP header Florian Westphal
2026-07-08 14:03 ` [PATCH net 11/17] netfilter: flowtable: IPIP tunnel hardware offload is not yet support Florian Westphal
2026-07-08 14:03 ` [PATCH net 12/17] netfilter: flowtable: support IPIP tunnel with direct xmit Florian Westphal
2026-07-08 14:03 ` [PATCH net 13/17] netfilter: handle unreadable frags Florian Westphal
2026-07-08 14:03 ` [PATCH net 14/17] ipvs: pass parsed transport offset to state handlers Florian Westphal
2026-07-08 14:03 ` [PATCH net 15/17] ipvs: use parsed transport offset in TCP state lookup Florian Westphal
2026-07-08 14:03 ` [PATCH net 16/17] ipvs: use parsed transport offset in SCTP " Florian Westphal
2026-07-08 14:03 ` [PATCH net 17/17] ipvs: ensure inner headers in ICMP errors are in headroom Florian Westphal
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