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From: Henry Martin <bsdhenrymartin@gmail.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: sam@mendozajonas.com, fercerpav@gmail.com, joel@jms.id.au,
	Henry Martin <bsdhenrymartin@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] net/ncsi: fix heap OOB read in NCSI_CMD_SEND_CMD payload length
Date: Mon,  3 Aug 2026 12:36:18 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260803043618.3210301-1-bsdhenrymartin@gmail.com> (raw)

ncsi_send_cmd_nl() takes the number of bytes to copy from the
attacker-controlled ncsi_pkt_hdr.length field of the in-band packet
header, while the source buffer is the NCSI_ATTR_DATA netlink
attribute whose readable size is nla_len() - sizeof(ncsi_pkt_hdr).
The two length sources are never cross-checked: only
nla_len() >= sizeof(struct ncsi_pkt_hdr) is enforced.

With hdr->length set larger than the attribute payload (up to 65535
against at most 2032 readable bytes), ncsi_cmd_handler_oem() copies
past the end of the netlink attribute buffer with unsafe_memcpy(),
leaking up to ~64KB of kernel heap memory into the transmitted NCSI
command packet. The destination skb is sized by the declared payload,
so the write side does not overflow - this is a pure OOB read /
information leak, reachable with CAP_NET_ADMIN on systems with a
registered NCSI device (e.g. OpenBMC on Aspeed BMC SoCs, where
NET_NCSI=y is standard).

Reject commands whose declared payload extends past the end of the
data attribute.

The issue was found by the autokbug dynamic kernel fuzzer at Tencent
Yunding Lab.

Fixes: 9771b8ccdfa6 ("net/ncsi: Extend NC-SI Netlink interface to allow user space to send NC-SI command")
Reported-by: Henry Martin <bsdhenrymartin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Henry Martin <bsdhenrymartin@gmail.com>
---
 net/ncsi/ncsi-netlink.c | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/ncsi/ncsi-netlink.c b/net/ncsi/ncsi-netlink.c
index 2f872d064396d..29f9dd0b62dc2 100644
--- a/net/ncsi/ncsi-netlink.c
+++ b/net/ncsi/ncsi-netlink.c
@@ -461,6 +461,11 @@ static int ncsi_send_cmd_nl(struct sk_buff *msg, struct genl_info *info)
 	nca.req_flags = NCSI_REQ_FLAG_NETLINK_DRIVEN;
 	nca.info = info;
 	nca.payload = ntohs(hdr->length);
+	if (nca.payload > len - sizeof(*hdr)) {
+		/* The payload cannot extend past the data attribute */
+		ret = -EINVAL;
+		goto out_netlink;
+	}
 	nca.data = data + sizeof(*hdr);
 
 	ret = ncsi_xmit_cmd(&nca);
-- 
2.43.0

             reply	other threads:[~2026-08-03  4:36 UTC|newest]

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2026-08-03  4:36 Henry Martin [this message]
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