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Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux.dev,
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Henry Martin <bsdhenryma@tencent.com>,
TCS Robot <tcs_robot@tencent.com>
Subject: [PATCH v1] VSOCK: fix Out-of-Bounds Read in vmci_transport_dgram_dequeue()
Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2025 14:20:41 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250805062041.1804857-1-tcs_kernel@tencent.com> (raw)
From: Henry Martin <bsdhenryma@tencent.com>
vmci_transport_dgram_dequeue lack of buffer length validation before
accessing `vmci_datagram` header.
Trigger Path:
1. Attacker sends a datagram with length < sizeof(struct
vmci_datagram).
2. `skb_recv_datagram()` returns the malformed sk_buff (skb->len <
sizeof(struct vmci_datagram)).
3. Code casts skb->data to struct vmci_datagram *dg without verifying
skb->len.
4. Accessing `dg->payload_size` (Line: `payload_len =
dg->payload_size;`) reads out-of-bounds memory.
Fixes: d021c344051a ("VSOCK: Introduce VM Sockets")
Reported-by: TCS Robot <tcs_robot@tencent.com>
Signed-off-by: Henry Martin <bsdhenryma@tencent.com>
---
net/vmw_vsock/vmci_transport.c | 5 +++++
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/vmw_vsock/vmci_transport.c b/net/vmw_vsock/vmci_transport.c
index 7eccd6708d66..0be605e19b2e 100644
--- a/net/vmw_vsock/vmci_transport.c
+++ b/net/vmw_vsock/vmci_transport.c
@@ -1749,6 +1749,11 @@ static int vmci_transport_dgram_dequeue(struct vsock_sock *vsk,
if (!skb)
return err;
+ if (skb->len < sizeof(struct vmci_datagram)) {
+ err = -EINVAL;
+ goto out;
+ }
+
dg = (struct vmci_datagram *)skb->data;
if (!dg)
/* err is 0, meaning we read zero bytes. */
--
2.41.3
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2025-08-05 7:15 ` [PATCH v1] VSOCK: fix Out-of-Bounds Read in vmci_transport_dgram_dequeue() Stefano Garzarella
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