From: Greg KH Subject: [patch 08/20] ipx: header length validation needed Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 11:46:39 -0700 Message-ID: <20060821184639.GI21938@kroah.com> References: <20060821183818.155091391@quad.kroah.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Justin Forbes , Zwane Mwaikambo , Theodore Ts'o , Randy Dunlap , Dave Jones , Chuck Wolber , Chris Wedgwood , torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, netdev@vger.kernel.org, acme@ghostprotocols.net, Stephen Hemminger Return-path: To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org, David Miller Content-Disposition: inline; filename="ipx-header-length-validation-needed.patch" In-Reply-To: <20060821184527.GA21938@kroah.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Stephen Hemminger This patch will linearize and check there is enough data. It handles the pprop case as well as avoiding a whole audit of the routing code. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger --- net/ipx/af_ipx.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- linux-2.6.17.8.orig/net/ipx/af_ipx.c +++ linux-2.6.17.8/net/ipx/af_ipx.c @@ -1647,7 +1647,8 @@ static int ipx_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb, ipx_pktsize = ntohs(ipx->ipx_pktsize); /* Too small or invalid header? */ - if (ipx_pktsize < sizeof(struct ipxhdr) || ipx_pktsize > skb->len) + if (ipx_pktsize < sizeof(struct ipxhdr) + || !pskb_may_pull(skb, ipx_pktsize)) goto drop; if (ipx->ipx_checksum != IPX_NO_CHECKSUM && --