From: nicholas@carlini.com
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>,
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Milad Nasr <srxzr@anthropic.com>,
Nicholas Carlini <nicholas@carlini.com>
Subject: [PATCH] xfrm6: fix slab-out-of-bounds write in xfrm6_input_addr()
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2026 16:35:16 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260328163516.2111971-1-nicholas@carlini.com> (raw)
From: Nicholas Carlini <nicholas@carlini.com>
The bounds check guarding sp->xvec[sp->len++] uses == where >= is
required. When sp->len has already reached XFRM_MAX_DEPTH via prior
ESP processing in xfrm_input(), the check (1 + 6 == 6) is false and
the write goes out of bounds into the adjacent skbuff_ext_cache slab
object.
An unprivileged local user can trigger this by entering a
user+network namespace, configuring six transport-mode ESP SAs plus
one MIP6 routing SA, and injecting an IPv6 packet with six ESP
layers followed by multiple Routing Header Type 2 extensions.
The check was correct (>) when the function was introduced, but
was changed to == during a refactor in 2007.
Fixes: 9473e1f631de ("[XFRM] MIPv6: Fix to input RO state correctly.")
Reported-by: Milad Nasr <srxzr@anthropic.com>
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Carlini <nicholas@carlini.com>
---
net/ipv6/xfrm6_input.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/ipv6/xfrm6_input.c b/net/ipv6/xfrm6_input.c
index 9005fc156a20..a958c08589d6 100644
--- a/net/ipv6/xfrm6_input.c
+++ b/net/ipv6/xfrm6_input.c
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ int xfrm6_input_addr(struct sk_buff *skb, xfrm_address_t *daddr,
goto drop;
}
- if (1 + sp->len == XFRM_MAX_DEPTH) {
+ if (1 + sp->len >= XFRM_MAX_DEPTH) {
XFRM_INC_STATS(net, LINUX_MIB_XFRMINBUFFERERROR);
goto drop;
}
--
2.39.5
next reply other threads:[~2026-03-28 16:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-28 16:35 nicholas [this message]
2026-03-31 7:50 ` [PATCH] xfrm6: fix slab-out-of-bounds write in xfrm6_input_addr() Steffen Klassert
2026-04-01 4:56 ` [PATCH v2] " nicholas
2026-04-01 16:26 ` I Viswanath
2026-04-07 8:15 ` Steffen Klassert
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