From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Cc: Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>,
"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>, Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>,
netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH nf] netfilter: nf_conntrack_sip: fix use of uninitialized rtp_addr in process_sdp
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2026 21:44:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <acWaoSUm9SrD8_pS@strlen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <acWVV__8xRMezYrU@chamomile>
Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> wrote:
> > @@ -1091,9 +1095,11 @@ static int process_sdp(struct sk_buff *skb, unsigned int protoff,
> > &matchoff, &matchlen, &maddr) > 0) {
> > maddr_len = matchlen;
> > memcpy(&rtp_addr, &maddr, sizeof(rtp_addr));
> > - } else if (caddr_len)
> > + have_rtp_addr = true;
> > + } else if (caddr_len) {
> > memcpy(&rtp_addr, &caddr, sizeof(rtp_addr));
> > - else {
> > + have_rtp_addr = true;
>
> After this update, this loop sets over rtp_addr, but this was already
> set by ct_sip_parse_sdp_addr() a bit above.
>
> This new chunk results in:
>
> } else if (caddr_len) {
> memcpy(&rtp_addr, &caddr, sizeof(rtp_addr));
> have_rtp_addr = true;
>
> which is not needed? Why does caddr need to be copied over and over
> again to rtp_addr?
Code before update was:
if (ct_sip_parse_sdp_addr(ct, *dptr, mediaoff, *datalen,
SDP_HDR_CONNECTION, SDP_HDR_MEDIA,
&matchoff, &matchlen, &maddr) > 0) {
maddr_len = matchlen;
memcpy(&rtp_addr, &maddr, sizeof(rtp_addr));
} else if (caddr_len)
memcpy(&rtp_addr, &caddr, sizeof(rtp_addr));
else {
so we re-set rtp_addr to the session description in case it was
overwritten by earlier iteration of the loop.
1. Extract session description (caddr_len set)
2. enter loop, parse media description (overwrite rtp_addr with media
address)
3. next loop fails ct_sip_parse_sdp_addr() call
Restore the original session address instead of using
the previous media description.
I think its correct this way.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-26 20:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-23 8:07 [PATCH nf] netfilter: nf_conntrack_sip: fix use of uninitialized rtp_addr in process_sdp Weiming Shi
2026-03-26 20:21 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2026-03-26 20:44 ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2026-03-26 21:39 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
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