From: Charalampos Mitrodimas <charmitro@posteo.net>
To: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
syzbot+01b0667934cdceb4451c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net: ipv6: fix buffer overflow in AH output
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2025 21:52:41 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8734ahcndl.fsf@posteo.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250727-ah6-buffer-overflow-v1-1-1f3e11fa98db@posteo.net>
Charalampos Mitrodimas <charmitro@posteo.net> writes:
> Fix a buffer overflow where extension headers are incorrectly copied
> to the IPv6 address fields, resulting in a field-spanning write of up
> to 40 bytes into a 16-byte field (IPv6 address).
>
> memcpy: detected field-spanning write (size 40) of single field "&top_iph->saddr" at net/ipv6/ah6.c:439 (size 16)
> WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 8838 at net/ipv6/ah6.c:439 ah6_output+0xe7e/0x14e0 net/ipv6/ah6.c:439
>
> The issue occurs in ah6_output() and ah6_output_done() where the code
> attempts to save/restore extension headers by copying them to/from the
> IPv6 source/destination address fields based on the CONFIG_IPV6_MIP6
> setting.
>
> Reported-by: syzbot+01b0667934cdceb4451c@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
> Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=b4169a1cfb945d2ed0ec
Oops, wrong syzbot dashboard link. v2 is sent.
C. Mitrodimas
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2025-07-27 21:48 [PATCH net] net: ipv6: fix buffer overflow in AH output Charalampos Mitrodimas
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