From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
To: "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>, David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@gmail.com,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Oskar Kjos <oskar.kjos@hotmail.com>,
Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Subject: [PATCH net] ip6_tunnel: validate ipv4 header in ip4ip6_err()
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:14:25 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260325171425.3920372-1-edumazet@google.com> (raw)
Oskar Kjos reported the following problem.
ip4ip6_err() calls icmp_send() on a cloned skb whose cb[] was written
by the IPv6 receive path as struct inet6_skb_parm. icmp_send() passes
IPCB(skb2) to __ip_options_echo(), which interprets that cb[] region
as struct inet_skb_parm (IPv4). The layouts differ: inet6_skb_parm.nhoff
at offset 14 overlaps inet_skb_parm.opt.rr, producing a non-zero rr
value. __ip_options_echo() then reads optlen from attacker-controlled
packet data at sptr[rr+1] and copies that many bytes into dopt->__data,
a fixed 40-byte stack buffer (IP_OPTIONS_DATA_FIXED_SIZE).
To fix this we could simply clear skb2->cb[].
In this patch I chose to validate the inner IPv4 header and
recompute options if any were included.
Fixes: c4d3efafcc93 ("[IPV6] IP6TUNNEL: Add support to IPv4 over IPv6 tunnel.")
Reported-by: Oskar Kjos <oskar.kjos@hotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
---
net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c b/net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c
index 4c29aa94e86eb9439458e4b23426bfda8b3b8922..1901348617f0a4f48358c1c8135068f4b861059f 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/ip6_tunnel.c
@@ -561,6 +561,7 @@ ip4ip6_err(struct sk_buff *skb, struct inet6_skb_parm *opt,
u8 type, u8 code, int offset, __be32 info)
{
__u32 rel_info = ntohl(info);
+ struct inet_skb_parm parm;
const struct iphdr *eiph;
struct sk_buff *skb2;
int err, rel_msg = 0;
@@ -606,6 +607,8 @@ ip4ip6_err(struct sk_buff *skb, struct inet6_skb_parm *opt,
skb_pull(skb2, offset);
skb_reset_network_header(skb2);
eiph = ip_hdr(skb2);
+ if (eiph->version != 4 || eiph->ihl < 5)
+ goto out;
/* Try to guess incoming interface */
rt = ip_route_output_ports(dev_net(skb->dev), &fl4, NULL, eiph->saddr,
@@ -617,6 +620,18 @@ ip4ip6_err(struct sk_buff *skb, struct inet6_skb_parm *opt,
skb2->dev = rt->dst.dev;
ip_rt_put(rt);
+ memset(&parm, 0, sizeof(parm));
+ if (eiph->ihl > 5) {
+ if (!pskb_network_may_pull(skb2, eiph->ihl * 4))
+ goto out;
+ eiph = ip_hdr(skb2);
+ parm.opt.optlen = eiph->ihl * 4 - sizeof(struct iphdr);
+
+ err = __ip_options_compile(dev_net(skb->dev), &parm.opt, skb2, NULL);
+
+ if (err)
+ goto out;
+ }
/* route "incoming" packet */
if (rt->rt_flags & RTCF_LOCAL) {
rt = ip_route_output_ports(dev_net(skb->dev), &fl4, NULL,
@@ -644,7 +659,7 @@ ip4ip6_err(struct sk_buff *skb, struct inet6_skb_parm *opt,
skb_dst_update_pmtu_no_confirm(skb2, rel_info);
}
- icmp_send(skb2, rel_type, rel_code, htonl(rel_info));
+ __icmp_send(skb2, rel_type, rel_code, htonl(rel_info), &parm);
out:
kfree_skb(skb2);
--
2.53.0.1018.g2bb0e51243-goog
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