From: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>,
<netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 3/9] xfrm: Check for underflow in xfrm_state_mtu
Date: Wed, 27 May 2026 10:41:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260527084148.3489759-4-steffen.klassert@secunet.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260527084148.3489759-1-steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
From: David Ahern <dahern@nvidia.com>
Leo Lin reported OOB write issue in esp component:
xfrm_state_mtu() returns u32 but performs its arithmetic in unsigned
modulo-2^32 space using an attacker-influenced "header_len + authsize +
net_adj" subtracted from a small "mtu" argument. A nobody user can
install an IPv4 ESP tunnel SA with a large authentication key
(XFRMA_ALG_AUTH_TRUNC, e.g. hmac(sha512), 64-byte key, 64-byte trunc),
configure a small interface MTU (68 bytes), and set XFRMA_TFCPAD to a
large value. When a single UDP datagram is then sent through the
tunnel, xfrm_state_mtu() underflows to a near-2^32 value, and
esp_output() consumes it as a signed int via:
padto = min(x->tfcpad, xfrm_state_mtu(x, mtu_cached))
esp.tfclen = padto - skb->len (assigned to int)
esp.tfclen ends up negative (e.g. -207). It is sign-extended to size_t
when passed to memset() inside esp_output_fill_trailer(), producing a
~16 EB write of zeroes at skb_tail_pointer(skb). KASAN logs it as
"Write of size 18446744073709551537 at addr ffff888...".
Check for underflow and return 1. This causes the sendmsg attempt to
fail with ENETUNREACH.
Fixes: c5c252389374 ("[XFRM]: Optimize MTU calculation")
Reported-by: Leo Lin <leo@depthfirst.com>
Assisted-by: Codex:26.506.31004
Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dahern@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert@secunet.com>
---
net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c | 19 ++++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c b/net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c
index 395d82411a87..589c3b6e4679 100644
--- a/net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c
+++ b/net/xfrm/xfrm_state.c
@@ -3114,10 +3114,14 @@ u32 xfrm_state_mtu(struct xfrm_state *x, int mtu)
const struct xfrm_type *type = READ_ONCE(x->type);
struct crypto_aead *aead;
u32 blksize, net_adj = 0;
+ u32 overhead, payload_mtu;
if (x->km.state != XFRM_STATE_VALID ||
- !type || type->proto != IPPROTO_ESP)
+ !type || type->proto != IPPROTO_ESP) {
+ if (mtu <= x->props.header_len)
+ return 1;
return mtu - x->props.header_len;
+ }
aead = x->data;
blksize = ALIGN(crypto_aead_blocksize(aead), 4);
@@ -3140,8 +3144,17 @@ u32 xfrm_state_mtu(struct xfrm_state *x, int mtu)
break;
}
- return ((mtu - x->props.header_len - crypto_aead_authsize(aead) -
- net_adj) & ~(blksize - 1)) + net_adj - 2;
+ overhead = x->props.header_len + crypto_aead_authsize(aead) + net_adj;
+ if (mtu <= overhead)
+ return 1;
+
+ payload_mtu = mtu - overhead;
+ payload_mtu &= ~(blksize - 1);
+ if (payload_mtu <= 2)
+ return 1;
+
+ return payload_mtu + net_adj - 2;
+
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(xfrm_state_mtu);
--
2.43.0
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-05-27 8:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-05-27 8:41 [PATCH 0/9] pull request (net): ipsec 2026-05-27 Steffen Klassert
2026-05-27 8:41 ` [PATCH 1/9] xfrm: route MIGRATE notifications to caller's netns Steffen Klassert
2026-05-27 8:41 ` [PATCH 2/9] xfrm: ipcomp: Free destination pages on acomp errors Steffen Klassert
2026-05-27 8:41 ` Steffen Klassert [this message]
2026-05-27 8:41 ` [PATCH 4/9] xfrm: ah: use skb_to_full_sk in async output callbacks Steffen Klassert
2026-05-27 8:41 ` [PATCH 5/9] esp: fix page frag reference leak on skb_to_sgvec failure Steffen Klassert
2026-05-28 13:44 ` Paolo Abeni
2026-05-29 5:52 ` Steffen Klassert
2026-05-29 7:14 ` Paolo Abeni
2026-05-29 8:27 ` Steffen Klassert
2026-05-29 18:14 ` Jakub Kicinski
2026-05-27 8:41 ` [PATCH 6/9] xfrm: esp: restore combined single-frag length gate Steffen Klassert
2026-05-27 8:41 ` [PATCH 7/9] xfrm: iptfs: reset runtime state when cloning SAs Steffen Klassert
2026-05-27 8:41 ` [PATCH 8/9] xfrm: move policy_bydst RCU sync from per-netns .exit to .pre_exit Steffen Klassert
2026-05-27 8:41 ` [PATCH 9/9] xfrm: input: hold netns during deferred transport reinjection Steffen Klassert
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