From: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
To: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NetLabel: Verify sensitivity level has a valid CIPSO mapping
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:45:07 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Line.LNX.4.64.0702281544350.9150@d.namei> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070228200140.491071752@hp.com>
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Paul Moore wrote:
> The current CIPSO engine has a problem where it does not verify that the given
> sensitivity level has a valid CIPSO mapping when the "std" CIPSO DOI type is
> used. The end result is that bad packets are sent on the wire which should
> have never been sent in the first place. This patch corrects this problem by
> verifying the sensitivity level mapping similar to what is done with the
> category mapping. This patch also changes the returned error code in this case
> to -EPERM to better match what the category mapping verification code returns.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
[removed redhat-lspp, which is subscriber only]
Acked-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
> ---
> net/ipv4/cipso_ipv4.c | 7 ++++---
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> Index: net-2.6_bugfix/net/ipv4/cipso_ipv4.c
> ===================================================================
> --- net-2.6_bugfix.orig/net/ipv4/cipso_ipv4.c
> +++ net-2.6_bugfix/net/ipv4/cipso_ipv4.c
> @@ -732,11 +732,12 @@ static int cipso_v4_map_lvl_hton(const s
> *net_lvl = host_lvl;
> return 0;
> case CIPSO_V4_MAP_STD:
> - if (host_lvl < doi_def->map.std->lvl.local_size) {
> + if (host_lvl < doi_def->map.std->lvl.local_size &&
> + doi_def->map.std->lvl.local[host_lvl] < CIPSO_V4_INV_LVL) {
> *net_lvl = doi_def->map.std->lvl.local[host_lvl];
> return 0;
> }
> - break;
> + return -EPERM;
> }
>
> return -EINVAL;
> @@ -771,7 +772,7 @@ static int cipso_v4_map_lvl_ntoh(const s
> *host_lvl = doi_def->map.std->lvl.cipso[net_lvl];
> return 0;
> }
> - break;
> + return -EPERM;
> }
>
> return -EINVAL;
>
> --
> paul moore
> linux security @ hp
>
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James Morris
<jmorris@namei.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-28 20:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-28 20:01 [PATCH] NetLabel: Verify sensitivity level has a valid CIPSO mapping Paul Moore
2007-02-28 20:45 ` James Morris [this message]
2007-03-02 21:19 ` David Miller
2007-03-02 16:12 ` Paul Moore
2007-03-02 19:23 ` David Miller
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