Qian Zhang (张谦) reported a potential socket buffer overflow in tipc_msg_build() which is also known as CVE-2016-8632: due to insufficient checks, a buffer overflow can occur if MTU is too short for even tipc headers. As anyone can set device MTU in a user/net namespace, this issue can be abused by a regular user.

As agreed in the discussion on Ben Hutchings' original patch, we should check the MTU at the moment a bearer is attached rather than for each processed packet. We also need to repeat the check when bearer MTU is adjusted to new device MTU. UDP case also needs a check to avoid overflow when calculating bearer MTU.

Fixes b97bf3fd8f6a ("[TIPC] Initial merge")

Signed-off-by Michal Kubecek <[email protected]>

Reported-by Qian Zhang (张谦) <[email protected]>

Acked-by Ying Xue <[email protected]>

Signed-off-by David S. Miller <[email protected]>

Signed-off-by Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 net/tipc/bearer.c    |   11 +++++++++--
 net/tipc/bearer.h    |   13 +++++++++++++
 net/tipc/udp_media.c |    5 +++++
 3 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

net/tipc/bearer.c +9 -2

@@ -402,6 +402,10 @@ int tipc_enable_l2_media(struct net *net
 	dev = dev_get_by_name(net, driver_name);
 	if (!dev)
 		return -ENODEV;
+	if (tipc_mtu_bad(dev, 0)) {
+		dev_put(dev);
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
 
 	/* Associate TIPC bearer with L2 bearer */
 	rcu_assign_pointer(b->media_ptr, dev);

@@ -606,8 +610,6 @@ static int tipc_l2_device_event(struct n
 	if (!b)
 		return NOTIFY_DONE;
 
-	b->mtu = dev->mtu;
-
 	switch (evt) {
 	case NETDEV_CHANGE:
 		if (netif_carrier_ok(dev))

@@ -621,6 +623,11 @@ static int tipc_l2_device_event(struct n
 		tipc_reset_bearer(net, b);
 		break;
 	case NETDEV_CHANGEMTU:
+		if (tipc_mtu_bad(dev, 0)) {
+			bearer_disable(net, b);
+			break;
+		}
+		b->mtu = dev->mtu;
 		tipc_reset_bearer(net, b);
 		break;
 	case NETDEV_CHANGEADDR:

net/tipc/bearer.h +13 -0

@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
 
 #include "netlink.h"
 #include "core.h"
+#include "msg.h"
 #include <net/genetlink.h>
 
 #define MAX_MEDIA	3

@@ -59,6 +60,9 @@
 #define TIPC_MEDIA_TYPE_IB	2
 #define TIPC_MEDIA_TYPE_UDP	3
 
+/* minimum bearer MTU */
+#define TIPC_MIN_BEARER_MTU	(MAX_H_SIZE + INT_H_SIZE)
+
 /**
  * struct tipc_media_addr - destination address used by TIPC bearers
  * @value: address info (format defined by media)

@@ -213,4 +217,13 @@ void tipc_bearer_xmit(struct net *net, u
 void tipc_bearer_bc_xmit(struct net *net, u32 bearer_id,
 			 struct sk_buff_head *xmitq);
 
+/* check if device MTU is too low for tipc headers */
+static inline bool tipc_mtu_bad(struct net_device *dev, unsigned int reserve)
+{
+	if (dev->mtu >= TIPC_MIN_BEARER_MTU + reserve)
+		return false;
+	netdev_warn(dev, "MTU too low for tipc bearer\n");
+	return true;
+}
+
 #endif	/* _TIPC_BEARER_H */

net/tipc/udp_media.c +5 -0

@@ -372,6 +372,11 @@ static int tipc_udp_enable(struct net *n
 		udp_conf.local_ip.s_addr = htonl(INADDR_ANY);
 		udp_conf.use_udp_checksums = false;
 		ub->ifindex = dev->ifindex;
+		if (tipc_mtu_bad(dev, sizeof(struct iphdr) +
+				      sizeof(struct udphdr))) {
+			err = -EINVAL;
+			goto err;
+		}
 		b->mtu = dev->mtu - sizeof(struct iphdr)
 			- sizeof(struct udphdr);
 #if IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_IPV6)

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.8/tipc-check-minimum-bearer-mtu.patch