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From: bestswngs@gmail.com
To: security@kernel.org
Cc: edumazet@google.com, davem@davemloft.net, kuba@kernel.org,
	pabeni@redhat.com, horms@kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xmei5@asu.edu,
	Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH net] nfnetlink_osf: validate individual option lengths in fingerprints
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2026 15:32:44 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260319073243.1176330-2-bestswngs@gmail.com> (raw)

From: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>

nfnl_osf_add_callback() validates opt_num bounds and string
NUL-termination but does not check individual option length fields.
A zero-length option causes nf_osf_match_one() to enter the option
matching loop even when foptsize sums to zero, which matches packets
with no TCP options where ctx->optp is NULL:

 Oops: general protection fault, probably for non-canonical address 0xdffffc0000000000: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI
 KASAN: null-ptr-deref in range [0x0000000000000000-0x0000000000000007]
 RIP: 0010:nf_osf_match_one (net/netfilter/nfnetlink_osf.c:98)
 Call Trace:
  <IRQ>
  nf_osf_match (net/netfilter/nfnetlink_osf.c:227)
  xt_osf_match_packet (net/netfilter/xt_osf.c:32)
  ipt_do_table (net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c:293)
  nf_hook_slow (net/netfilter/core.c:623)
  ip_local_deliver (net/ipv4/ip_input.c:262)
  ip_rcv (net/ipv4/ip_input.c:573)
  </IRQ>
 Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt

Additionally, an MSS option (kind=2) with length < 4 causes
out-of-bounds reads when nf_osf_match_one() unconditionally accesses
optp[2] and optp[3] for MSS value extraction.  While RFC 9293
section 3.2 specifies that the MSS option is always exactly 4
bytes (Kind=2, Length=4), the check uses "< 4" rather than
"!= 4" because lengths greater than 4 do not cause memory
safety issues -- the buffer is guaranteed to be at least
foptsize bytes by the ctx->optsize == foptsize check.

Reject fingerprints where any option has zero length, or where an MSS
option has length less than 4, at add time rather than trusting these
values in the packet matching hot path.

Fixes: 11eeef41d5f6 ("netfilter: passive OS fingerprint xtables match")
Reported-by: Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
Signed-off-by: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
---
 net/netfilter/nfnetlink_osf.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_osf.c b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_osf.c
index 94e3eac5743a..c35b831dac5a 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_osf.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_osf.c
@@ -303,6 +303,7 @@ static int nfnl_osf_add_callback(struct sk_buff *skb,
 	struct nf_osf_user_finger *f;
 	struct nf_osf_finger *kf = NULL, *sf;
 	int err = 0;
+	int i;

 	if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
 		return -EPERM;
@@ -318,6 +319,13 @@ static int nfnl_osf_add_callback(struct sk_buff *skb,
 	if (f->opt_num > ARRAY_SIZE(f->opt))
 		return -EINVAL;

+	for (i = 0; i < f->opt_num; i++) {
+		if (!f->opt[i].length)
+			return -EINVAL;
+		if (f->opt[i].kind == OSFOPT_MSS && f->opt[i].length < 4)
+			return -EINVAL;
+	}
+
 	if (!memchr(f->genre, 0, MAXGENRELEN) ||
 	    !memchr(f->subtype, 0, MAXGENRELEN) ||
 	    !memchr(f->version, 0, MAXGENRELEN))
--
2.43.0

             reply	other threads:[~2026-03-19  7:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-19  7:32 bestswngs [this message]
2026-03-19  7:54 ` [PATCH net] nfnetlink_osf: validate individual option lengths in fingerprints Florian Westphal
2026-03-19  7:55 ` Greg KH
2026-03-19  8:04 ` Florian Westphal
2026-03-19  8:26   ` Weiming Shi

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