From: Doruk Tan Ozturk <doruk@0sec.ai>
To: david@ixit.cz, oe-linux-nfc@lists.linux.dev
Cc: horms@kernel.org, david.laight.linux@gmail.com,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
stable@vger.kernel.org, Doruk Tan Ozturk <doruk@0sec.ai>
Subject: [PATCH net v2] nfc: llcp: bound the connect_sn TLV walk to the skb
Date: Thu, 9 Jul 2026 15:12:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260709131229.44477-1-doruk@0sec.ai> (raw)
Commit 27256cdb290e ("nfc: llcp: bound SNL TLV parsing to the skb and
add length checks") fixed the unbounded TLV walk in nfc_llcp_recv_snl(),
and commit d8bd2dedbde5 ("nfc: llcp: fix OOB read and u8 offset wrap in
TLV parsers") subsequently bounded nfc_llcp_parse_gb_tlv() and
nfc_llcp_parse_connection_tlv(). One sibling parser sharing the same
pattern remains unbounded: nfc_llcp_connect_sn().
nfc_llcp_connect_sn() walks a TLV list, reading a two-byte header
(type, length) followed by length bytes of value, without checking that
the two header bytes or the declared length stay within the buffer. It
returns a pointer to a service name of up to 255 bytes that may point
past the end of the skb; it is subsequently consumed by memcmp() in
nfc_llcp_sock_from_sn(). In addition tlv_array_len was computed as
"skb->len - LLCP_HEADER_SIZE" in size_t, so a CONNECT/CC frame shorter
than the LLCP header underflows to a huge length and the walk runs far
past the buffer.
nfc_llcp_connect_sn() is reachable from nfc_llcp_recv_connect() and
nfc_llcp_recv_cc(), i.e. from received CONNECT and CC PDUs. A nearby
NFC device can reach this without authentication; LLCP link activation
happens automatically after NFC-DEP, and the nfc_llcp_rx_skb()
dispatcher applies no minimum-length guard.
Walk the TLV list by pointer, bounded by skb_tail_pointer(skb), and
validate each declared length before use, matching the approach already
used for nfc_llcp_recv_snl(). Starting the walk at
&skb->data[LLCP_HEADER_SIZE] against the tail pointer also removes the
size_t underflow for short frames.
Found by 0sec automated security-research tooling (https://0sec.ai).
Fixes: d646960f7986 ("NFC: Initial LLCP support")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: 0sec:claude-opus-4-8
Signed-off-by: Doruk Tan Ozturk <doruk@0sec.ai>
---
v2: drop the nfc_llcp_parse_gb_tlv() and nfc_llcp_parse_connection_tlv()
hunks - fixed independently by d8bd2dedbde5. This resend covers only
the still-unbounded nfc_llcp_connect_sn().
v1: https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20260705113505 net/nfc/llcp_core.c | 10 ++++++----
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/nfc/llcp_core.c b/net/nfc/llcp_core.c
index aed5fe1afef0..0de20279e046 100644
--- a/net/nfc/llcp_core.c
+++ b/net/nfc/llcp_core.c
@@ -849,13 +849,16 @@ static struct nfc_llcp_sock *nfc_llcp_sock_get_sn(struct nfc_llcp_local *local,
static const u8 *nfc_llcp_connect_sn(const struct sk_buff *skb, size_t *sn_len)
{
u8 type, length;
- const u8 *tlv = &skb->data[2];
- size_t tlv_array_len = skb->len - LLCP_HEADER_SIZE, offset = 0;
+ const u8 *tlv = &skb->data[LLCP_HEADER_SIZE];
+ const u8 *tlv_end = skb_tail_pointer(skb);
- while (offset < tlv_array_len) {
+ while (tlv + 2 < tlv_end) {
type = tlv[0];
length = tlv[1];
+ if (tlv + 2 + length > tlv_end)
+ break;
+
pr_debug("type 0x%x length %d\n", type, length);
if (type == LLCP_TLV_SN) {
@@ -863,7 +866,6 @@ static const u8 *nfc_llcp_connect_sn(const struct sk_buff *skb, size_t *sn_len)
return &tlv[2];
}
- offset += length + 2;
tlv += length + 2;
}
--
2.43.0
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