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From: HACKE-RC <rc@rexion.ai>
To: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>, Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Cc: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
	netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	HACKE-RC <rc@rexion.ai>
Subject: [PATCH net-next 1/2] netfilter: nf_conntrack_irc: reject DCC port values above 65535
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2026 21:42:29 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260430161230.3438973-2-rc@rexion.ai> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260430161230.3438973-1-rc@rexion.ai>

parse_dcc() stores the return value of simple_strtoul() directly into
a u_int16_t pointer. simple_strtoul() returns unsigned long, so values
above 65535 are silently truncated when assigned to the u16 output
parameter.

Use an intermediate unsigned long variable and reject out-of-range
values by returning -1, which causes the caller in help() to skip
the DCC command via the existing error path.

The dcc_port == 0 check in help() already rejects port 0, so this
change only adds the upper-bound check in the parser.

Fixes: 869f37d8e48f ("[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack/nf_nat: add IRC helper port")
Signed-off-by: HACKE-RC <rc@rexion.ai>
---
 net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_irc.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_irc.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_irc.c
index 522183b9a..ffaa7ab84 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_irc.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_irc.c
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ static const char *const dccprotos[] = {
 static int parse_dcc(char *data, const char *data_end, __be32 *ip,
 		     u_int16_t *port, char **ad_beg_p, char **ad_end_p)
 {
+	unsigned long parsed_port;
 	char *tmp;
 
 	/* at least 12: "AAAAAAAA P\1\n" */
@@ -93,7 +94,11 @@ static int parse_dcc(char *data, const char *data_end, __be32 *ip,
 		data++;
 	}
 
-	*port = simple_strtoul(data, &data, 10);
+	parsed_port = simple_strtoul(data, &data, 10);
+	if (parsed_port > 65535)
+		return -1;
+
+	*port = parsed_port;
 	*ad_end_p = data;
 
 	return 0;
-- 
2.54.0


  reply	other threads:[~2026-04-30 16:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-04-30 16:12 [PATCH net-next 0/2] netfilter: conntrack: validate parsed port values in IRC and Amanda helpers HACKE-RC
2026-04-30 16:12 ` HACKE-RC [this message]
2026-04-30 16:18 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso

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