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From: Aamir Ahmed <elb12345@hotmail.co.uk>
To: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] netfilter: conntrack_amanda: fix port value truncation
Date: Mon,  7 Sep 2026 00:37:34 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AS8P251MB0001CCFE2A0F40637E5A366CC8B32@AS8P251MB0001.EURP251.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM> (raw)

amanda_help() uses simple_strtoul() to parse the port number from
Amanda CONNECT replies, passing the result directly through htons()
into a __be16.  simple_strtoul() returns unsigned long, so values
above 65535 are silently truncated by the implicit conversion to u16
inside htons().

The existing check "port == 0 || len > 5" is insufficient: it
catches values that truncate to zero (e.g. 65536) and strings longer
than 5 digits, but misses values 65537-99999 whose u16 truncation is
non-zero.  For example, port 65537 becomes port 1, creating a
conntrack expectation for an unintended port.

Parse into an unsigned long and explicitly reject values above 65535
before the htons() conversion, mirroring the pattern used by the FTP
helper's get_port() and the recent IPVS FTP fix (commit
e625a9477d12).

Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Aamir Ahmed <elb12345@hotmail.co.uk>
---
 net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_amanda.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_amanda.c b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_amanda.c
index 14ae660491f3..057cef7e2a7e 100644
--- a/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_amanda.c
+++ b/net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_amanda.c
@@ -91,6 +91,7 @@ static int amanda_help(struct sk_buff *skb,
 	char pbuf[sizeof("65535")], *tmp;
 	u16 len;
 	__be16 port;
+	unsigned long tmp_port;
 	int ret = NF_ACCEPT;
 	nf_nat_amanda_hook_fn *nf_nat_amanda;
 
@@ -132,10 +133,11 @@ static int amanda_help(struct sk_buff *skb,
 			break;
 		pbuf[len] = '\0';
 
-		port = htons(simple_strtoul(pbuf, &tmp, 10));
+		tmp_port = simple_strtoul(pbuf, &tmp, 10);
 		len = tmp - pbuf;
-		if (port == 0 || len > 5)
+		if (tmp_port == 0 || tmp_port > 65535 || len > 5)
 			break;
+		port = htons(tmp_port);
 
 		exp = nf_ct_expect_alloc(ct);
 		if (exp == NULL) {
-- 
2.43.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-09-06 23:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-09-06 23:37 Aamir Ahmed [this message]
2026-09-07  6:56 ` [PATCH] netfilter: conntrack_amanda: fix port value truncation Chenguang Zhao
2026-09-07 16:37   ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2026-09-08  1:37     ` Aamir Ahmed
2026-09-07  8:33 ` Florian Westphal
2026-09-09  9:39 ` netdev-bot+sashiko
2026-09-09 12:14   ` Florian Westphal
2026-09-09 23:28     ` Aamir Ahmed

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