From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Carpenter Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2014 06:21:40 +0000 Subject: [patch -mainline] netfilter: ipset: small potential read beyond the end of buffer Message-Id: <20141107062140.GA10905@mwanda> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Pablo Neira Ayuso Cc: Patrick McHardy , Jozsef Kadlecsik , "David S. Miller" , Sergey Popovich , Masanari Iida , Anton Danilov , stephen hemminger , netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter.org, netdev@vger.kernddel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org We could be reading 8 bytes into a 4 byte buffer here. It seems harmless but adding a check is the right thing to do and it silences a static checker warning. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter diff --git a/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c b/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c index 86f9d76..ac08a3f 100644 --- a/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c +++ b/net/netfilter/ipset/ip_set_core.c @@ -1863,7 +1863,8 @@ ip_set_sockfn_get(struct sock *sk, int optval, void __user *user, int *len) if (*op < IP_SET_OP_VERSION) { /* Check the version at the beginning of operations */ struct ip_set_req_version *req_version = data; - if (req_version->version != IPSET_PROTOCOL) { + if (*len < sizeof(struct ip_set_req_version) || + req_version->version != IPSET_PROTOCOL) { ret = -EPROTO; goto done; }