From: Xingyuan Mo <hdthky0@gmail.com>
To: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@gmail.com>,
Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Cc: "open list:SCTP PROTOCOL" <linux-sctp@vger.kernel.org>,
"open list:NETWORKING [GENERAL]" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Xingyuan Mo <hdthky0@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] sctp: reject forged cookie peer_addr with unknown address family
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2026 19:36:15 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260913113522.2674588-1-hdthky0@gmail.com> (raw)
When cookie authentication is disabled, COOKIE-ECHO peer_addr is
attacker-controlled. An invalid sa_family made sctp_get_af_specific()
return NULL and crash in sctp_transport_init() on
af_specific->sockaddr_len. Reject non-INET/INET6 families in
sctp_unpack_cookie(), and also bail in sctp_transport_new() if
af_specific is missing.
BUG: KASAN: null-ptr-deref in sctp_transport_new+0xa7/0x350
Read of size 4 at addr 00000000000000b4 by task poc/682
Call Trace:
<IRQ>
sctp_transport_new+0xa7/0x350
sctp_assoc_add_peer+0x153/0x850
sctp_process_init+0xf9/0x1180
sctp_sf_do_5_1D_ce+0x464/0xbc0
sctp_do_sm+0x114/0x2990
sctp_endpoint_bh_rcv+0x280/0x430
sctp_inq_push+0xdd/0x100
sctp_rcv+0x17f5/0x1ae0
sctp4_rcv+0x2b/0x40
ip_protocol_deliver_rcu+0x25b/0x270
ip_local_deliver+0xd1/0xe0
</IRQ>
Kernel panic - not syncing: Fatal exception in interrupt
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Assisted-by: opencode:deepseek-v4
Signed-off-by: Xingyuan Mo <hdthky0@gmail.com>
---
net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c | 4 ++++
net/sctp/transport.c | 3 +++
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c b/net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c
index 84a4c97d0f75..7c8fe4b38cd1 100644
--- a/net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c
+++ b/net/sctp/sm_make_chunk.c
@@ -1855,6 +1855,10 @@ struct sctp_association *sctp_unpack_cookie(
if (!sctp_auth_verify_cookie_params(ep, bear_cookie))
goto malformed;
+ if (bear_cookie->peer_addr.sa.sa_family != AF_INET &&
+ bear_cookie->peer_addr.sa.sa_family != AF_INET6)
+ goto malformed;
+
/* Populate the association from the cookie. */
memcpy(&retval->c, bear_cookie, sizeof(*bear_cookie));
diff --git a/net/sctp/transport.c b/net/sctp/transport.c
index 6ea55b9fbde4..cd1a604d6f8e 100644
--- a/net/sctp/transport.c
+++ b/net/sctp/transport.c
@@ -92,6 +92,9 @@ struct sctp_transport *sctp_transport_new(struct net *net,
{
struct sctp_transport *transport;
+ if (!sctp_get_af_specific(addr->sa.sa_family))
+ return NULL;
+
transport = kzalloc_obj(*transport, gfp);
if (!transport)
return NULL;
--
2.43.0
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