From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: Jenny Guanni Qu <qguanni@gmail.com>
Cc: pablo@netfilter.org, kadlec@netfilter.org,
netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: nf_nat_sip: validate exp->dir in nf_nat_sip_expected()
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:32:37 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <abSelah2hPOUbEng@strlen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260313201346.562476-1-qguanni@gmail.com>
Jenny Guanni Qu <qguanni@gmail.com> wrote:
> nf_nat_sip_expected() uses exp->dir to index into the 2-element
> tuplehash[] array without bounds checking. If exp->dir has an
> out-of-range value, this causes a slab-out-of-bounds read.
>
> KASAN reports:
>
> BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in nf_nat_sip_expected+0x804/0x938
> Read of size 8 at addr ffff0000d113e3b8
> The buggy address is located 72 bytes to the right of
> allocated 240-byte region
>
> Add a bounds check to ensure exp->dir is less than IP_CT_DIR_MAX.
Ok, but exp->dir isn't expected to contain crap.
How does exp->dir become >= IP_CT_DIR_MAX?
Are you sure this isn't papering over another bug?
In particular, there is missing validation in the ctnetlink code
for the dir argument.
https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20260313150614.21177-3-fw@strlen.de/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-03-13 23:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-03-13 20:13 [PATCH] netfilter: nf_nat_sip: validate exp->dir in nf_nat_sip_expected() Jenny Guanni Qu
2026-03-13 23:32 ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2026-03-14 11:50 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2026-03-14 22:21 ` Guanni Qu
2026-03-15 7:26 ` Florian Westphal
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=abSelah2hPOUbEng@strlen.de \
--to=fw@strlen.de \
--cc=kadlec@netfilter.org \
--cc=netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=pablo@netfilter.org \
--cc=qguanni@gmail.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox