[PATCH 6.18.y] netfilter: conntrack: add missing netlink policy validations

[PATCH 6.18.y] netfilter: conntrack: add missing netlink policy validations

[Li hongliang]

From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>

[ Upstream commit f900e1d77ee0ef87bfb5ab3fe60f0b3d8ad5ba05 ]

Hyunwoo Kim reports out-of-bounds access in sctp and ctnetlink.

These attributes are used by the kernel without any validation.
Extend the netlink policies accordingly.

Quoting the reporter:
  nlattr_to_sctp() assigns the user-supplied CTA_PROTOINFO_SCTP_STATE
  value directly to ct->proto.sctp.state without checking that it is
  within the valid range. [..]

  and: ... with exp->dir = 100, the access at
  ct->master->tuplehash[100] reads 5600 bytes past the start of a
  320-byte nf_conn object, causing a slab-out-of-bounds read confirmed by
  UBSAN.

Fixes: 076a0ca02644 ("netfilter: ctnetlink: add NAT support for expectations")
Fixes: a258860e01b8 ("netfilter: ctnetlink: add full support for SCTP to ctnetlink")
Reported-by: Hyunwoo Kim <imv4bel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Li hongliang <1468888505@139.com>
---
 net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c    | 2 +-
 net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_sctp.c | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c
index 879413b9fa06..2bb9eb2d25fb 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c
@@ -3465,7 +3465,7 @@ ctnetlink_change_expect(struct nf_conntrack_expect *x,
 
 #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NF_NAT)
 static const struct nla_policy exp_nat_nla_policy[CTA_EXPECT_NAT_MAX+1] = {
-	[CTA_EXPECT_NAT_DIR]	= { .type = NLA_U32 },
+	[CTA_EXPECT_NAT_DIR]	= NLA_POLICY_MAX(NLA_BE32, IP_CT_DIR_REPLY),
 	[CTA_EXPECT_NAT_TUPLE]	= { .type = NLA_NESTED },
 };
 #endif
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_sctp.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_sctp.c
index 7c6f7c9f7332..645d2c43ebf7 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_sctp.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_sctp.c
@@ -582,7 +582,8 @@ static int sctp_to_nlattr(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlattr *nla,
 }
 
 static const struct nla_policy sctp_nla_policy[CTA_PROTOINFO_SCTP_MAX+1] = {
-	[CTA_PROTOINFO_SCTP_STATE]	    = { .type = NLA_U8 },
+	[CTA_PROTOINFO_SCTP_STATE]	    = NLA_POLICY_MAX(NLA_U8,
+							 SCTP_CONNTRACK_HEARTBEAT_SENT),
 	[CTA_PROTOINFO_SCTP_VTAG_ORIGINAL]  = { .type = NLA_U32 },
 	[CTA_PROTOINFO_SCTP_VTAG_REPLY]     = { .type = NLA_U32 },
 };
-- 
2.34.1

Patch "netfilter: conntrack: add missing netlink policy validations" has been added to the 6.18-stable tree

[gregkh]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    netfilter: conntrack: add missing netlink policy validations

to the 6.18-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     netfilter-conntrack-add-missing-netlink-policy-validations.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.18 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


From stable+bounces-237711-greg=kroah.com@vger.kernel.org Tue Apr 14 05:31:44 2026
From: Li hongliang <1468888505@139.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2026 11:31:29 +0800
Subject: netfilter: conntrack: add missing netlink policy validations
To: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, fw@strlen.de
Cc: patches@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pablo@netfilter.org, kadlec@netfilter.org, davem@davemloft.net, edumazet@google.com, kuba@kernel.org, pabeni@redhat.com, horms@kernel.org, kaber@trash.net, netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, imv4bel@gmail.com
Message-ID: <20260414033129.48460-1-1468888505@139.com>

From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>

[ Upstream commit f900e1d77ee0ef87bfb5ab3fe60f0b3d8ad5ba05 ]

Hyunwoo Kim reports out-of-bounds access in sctp and ctnetlink.

These attributes are used by the kernel without any validation.
Extend the netlink policies accordingly.

Quoting the reporter:
  nlattr_to_sctp() assigns the user-supplied CTA_PROTOINFO_SCTP_STATE
  value directly to ct->proto.sctp.state without checking that it is
  within the valid range. [..]

  and: ... with exp->dir = 100, the access at
  ct->master->tuplehash[100] reads 5600 bytes past the start of a
  320-byte nf_conn object, causing a slab-out-of-bounds read confirmed by
  UBSAN.

Fixes: 076a0ca02644 ("netfilter: ctnetlink: add NAT support for expectations")
Fixes: a258860e01b8 ("netfilter: ctnetlink: add full support for SCTP to ctnetlink")
Reported-by: Hyunwoo Kim <imv4bel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: Li hongliang <1468888505@139.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c    | 2 +-
 net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_sctp.c | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c
index 879413b9fa06..2bb9eb2d25fb 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_netlink.c
@@ -3465,7 +3465,7 @@ ctnetlink_change_expect(struct nf_conntrack_expect *x,
 
 #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_NF_NAT)
 static const struct nla_policy exp_nat_nla_policy[CTA_EXPECT_NAT_MAX+1] = {
-	[CTA_EXPECT_NAT_DIR]	= { .type = NLA_U32 },
+	[CTA_EXPECT_NAT_DIR]	= NLA_POLICY_MAX(NLA_BE32, IP_CT_DIR_REPLY),
 	[CTA_EXPECT_NAT_TUPLE]	= { .type = NLA_NESTED },
 };
 #endif
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_sctp.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_sctp.c
index 7c6f7c9f7332..645d2c43ebf7 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_sctp.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_sctp.c
@@ -582,7 +582,8 @@ static int sctp_to_nlattr(struct sk_buff *skb, struct nlattr *nla,
 }
 
 static const struct nla_policy sctp_nla_policy[CTA_PROTOINFO_SCTP_MAX+1] = {
-	[CTA_PROTOINFO_SCTP_STATE]	    = { .type = NLA_U8 },
+	[CTA_PROTOINFO_SCTP_STATE]	    = NLA_POLICY_MAX(NLA_U8,
+							 SCTP_CONNTRACK_HEARTBEAT_SENT),
 	[CTA_PROTOINFO_SCTP_VTAG_ORIGINAL]  = { .type = NLA_U32 },
 	[CTA_PROTOINFO_SCTP_VTAG_REPLY]     = { .type = NLA_U32 },
 };
-- 
2.34.1



Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from 1468888505@139.com are

queue-6.18/netfilter-conntrack-add-missing-netlink-policy-validations.patch