From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
<netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org>,
pablo@netfilter.org
Subject: [PATCH net 1/2] netfilter: nf_conntrack_h323: fix OOB read in decode_choice()
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2026 14:06:18 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260225130619.1248-2-fw@strlen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260225130619.1248-1-fw@strlen.de>
From: Vahagn Vardanian <vahagn@redrays.io>
In decode_choice(), the boundary check before get_len() uses the
variable `len`, which is still 0 from its initialization at the top of
the function:
unsigned int type, ext, len = 0;
...
if (ext || (son->attr & OPEN)) {
BYTE_ALIGN(bs);
if (nf_h323_error_boundary(bs, len, 0)) /* len is 0 here */
return H323_ERROR_BOUND;
len = get_len(bs); /* OOB read */
When the bitstream is exactly consumed (bs->cur == bs->end), the check
nf_h323_error_boundary(bs, 0, 0) evaluates to (bs->cur + 0 > bs->end),
which is false. The subsequent get_len() call then dereferences
*bs->cur++, reading 1 byte past the end of the buffer. If that byte
has bit 7 set, get_len() reads a second byte as well.
This can be triggered remotely by sending a crafted Q.931 SETUP message
with a User-User Information Element containing exactly 2 bytes of
PER-encoded data ({0x08, 0x00}) to port 1720 through a firewall with
the nf_conntrack_h323 helper active. The decoder fully consumes the
PER buffer before reaching this code path, resulting in a 1-2 byte
heap-buffer-overflow read confirmed by AddressSanitizer.
Fix this by checking for 2 bytes (the maximum that get_len() may read)
instead of the uninitialized `len`. This matches the pattern used at
every other get_len() call site in the same file, where the caller
checks for 2 bytes of available data before calling get_len().
Fixes: ec8a8f3c31dd ("netfilter: nf_ct_h323: Extend nf_h323_error_boundary to work on bits as well")
Signed-off-by: Vahagn Vardanian <vahagn@redrays.io>
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
---
net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_h323_asn1.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_h323_asn1.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_h323_asn1.c
index 540d97715bd2..62aa22a07876 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_h323_asn1.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_h323_asn1.c
@@ -796,7 +796,7 @@ static int decode_choice(struct bitstr *bs, const struct field_t *f,
if (ext || (son->attr & OPEN)) {
BYTE_ALIGN(bs);
- if (nf_h323_error_boundary(bs, len, 0))
+ if (nf_h323_error_boundary(bs, 2, 0))
return H323_ERROR_BOUND;
len = get_len(bs);
if (nf_h323_error_boundary(bs, len, 0))
--
2.52.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-02-25 13:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-02-25 13:06 [PATCH net 0/2] netfilter updates for net Florian Westphal
2026-02-25 13:06 ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2026-02-26 9:10 ` [PATCH net 1/2] netfilter: nf_conntrack_h323: fix OOB read in decode_choice() Florian Westphal
2026-02-26 11:47 ` Paolo Abeni
2026-02-26 14:14 ` Florian Westphal
2026-02-26 11:48 ` Paolo Abeni
2026-02-26 14:00 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
2026-02-25 13:06 ` [PATCH net 2/2] netfilter: nf_tables: unconditionally bump set->nelems before insertion Florian Westphal
2026-02-26 3:56 ` [net,2/2] " Jakub Kicinski
2026-02-26 8:19 ` Florian Westphal
2026-02-26 16:28 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2026-02-26 17:19 ` Paolo Abeni
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