From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org,
Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>,
Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>,
coreteam@netfilter.org, Weiming Shi <bestswngs@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH nf] netfilter: nfnetlink_osf: fix divide-by-zero in OSF_WSS_MODULO
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2026 22:41:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <adqx_IBgoyAMIJ5I@strlen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260410204843.64259-1-xmei5@asu.edu>
Xiang Mei <xmei5@asu.edu> wrote:
> The OSF_WSS_MODULO branch in nf_osf_match_one() performs:
>
> ctx->window % f->wss.val
>
> without guarding against f->wss.val == 0. A user with CAP_NET_ADMIN
> can add an OSF fingerprint with wss.wc = OSF_WSS_MODULO and wss.val = 0
> via nfnetlink. When a matching TCP SYN packet arrives, the kernel
> executes a division by zero and panics.
>
> The OSF_WSS_PLAIN case already treats val == 0 as a wildcard (match
> everything). Apply the same semantics to OSF_WSS_MODULO: if val is 0,
> any window value matches rather than dividing by zero.
>
> Crash:
> Oops: divide error: 0000 [#1] SMP KASAN NOPTI
> RIP: 0010:nf_osf_match_one (net/netfilter/nfnetlink_osf.c:98)
> Call Trace:
> <IRQ>
> nf_osf_match (net/netfilter/nfnetlink_osf.c:220 (discriminator 6))
> xt_osf_match_packet (net/netfilter/xt_osf.c:32)
> ipt_do_table (net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_tables.c:348)
> nf_hook_slow (net/netfilter/core.c:622 (discriminator 1))
> ip_local_deliver (net/ipv4/ip_input.c:265)
> ip_rcv (include/linux/skbuff.h:1162)
> __netif_receive_skb_one_core (net/core/dev.c:6181)
> process_backlog (.include/linux/skbuff.h:2502 net/core/dev.c:6642)
> __napi_poll (net/core/dev.c:7710)
> net_rx_action (net/core/dev.c:7945)
> handle_softirqs (kernel/softirq.c:622)
>
> Fixes: 31a9c29210e2 ("netfilter: nf_osf: add struct nf_osf_hdr_ctx")
Hmm, why? AFAICS the bug was there from start:
11eeef41d5f63 case OSF_WSS_MODULO:
11eeef41d5f63 if ((window % f->wss.val) == 0)
11eeef41d5f63 fmatch = FMATCH_OK;
So:
Fixes: 11eeef41d5f6 ("netfilter: passive OS fingerprint xtables match")
> diff --git a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_osf.c b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_osf.c
> index 45d9ad231..193436aa9 100644
> --- a/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_osf.c
> +++ b/net/netfilter/nfnetlink_osf.c
> @@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ static bool nf_osf_match_one(const struct sk_buff *skb,
> fmatch = FMATCH_OK;
> break;
> case OSF_WSS_MODULO:
> - if ((ctx->window % f->wss.val) == 0)
> + if (f->wss.val == 0 || (ctx->window % f->wss.val) == 0)
Could you send a v2 that rejects this from control plane instead?
Nobody is using a 0 value, else we'd have gotted such crash reports by
now.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-11 20:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-04-10 20:48 [PATCH nf] netfilter: nfnetlink_osf: fix divide-by-zero in OSF_WSS_MODULO Xiang Mei
2026-04-11 7:56 ` Fernando Fernandez Mancera
2026-04-11 20:41 ` Florian Westphal [this message]
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