[PATCH net-next 0/2] netfilter: conntrack: validate parsed port values in IRC and Amanda helpers

HACKE-RC
2026-04-30T16:20:00Z

Both nf_conntrack_irc and nf_conntrack_amanda parse port numbers from
application-layer protocol data using simple_strtoul(), which returns
unsigned long. The results are stored in u16 variables without range
checks, silently truncating values above 65535.

This series adds explicit upper-bound validation in both helpers.

Note: checkpatch warns about simple_strtoul being obsolete. Both
call sites use the endptr output parameter to advance the parse
position, which kstrtoul does not provide. Converting to kstrtoul
would require restructuring the parsers, which is out of scope for
this fix.

HACKE-RC (2):
netfilter: nf_conntrack_irc: reject DCC port values above 65535
netfilter: nf_conntrack_amanda: reject port values above 65535

net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_amanda.c | 10 ++++++----
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_irc.c | 7 ++++++-
2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

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