Patch "netfilter: nfnetlink: correctly validate length of batch messages" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

netfilter: nfnetlink: correctly validate length of batch messages

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
netfilter-nfnetlink-correctly-validate-length-of-batch-messages.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Phil Turnbull <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2016 13:36:45 -0500
Subject: netfilter: nfnetlink: correctly validate length of batch messages

From: Phil Turnbull <[email protected]>

commit c58d6c93680f28ac58984af61d0a7ebf4319c241 upstream.

If nlh->nlmsg_len is zero then an infinite loop is triggered because 'skb_pull(skb, msglen);' pulls zero bytes.

The calculation in nlmsg_len() underflows if 'nlh->nlmsg_len < NLMSG_HDRLEN' which bypasses the length validation and will later trigger an out-of-bound read.

If the length validation does fail then the malformed batch message is copied back to userspace. However, we cannot do this because the nlh->nlmsg_len can be invalid. This leads to an out-of-bounds read in netlink_ack:

    [   41.455421] ==================================================================
    [   41.456431] BUG: KASAN: slab-out-of-bounds in memcpy+0x1d/0x40 at addr ffff880119e79340
    [   41.456431] Read of size 4294967280 by task a.out/987
    [   41.456431] =============================================================================
    [   41.456431] BUG kmalloc-512 (Not tainted): kasan: bad access detected
    [   41.456431] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    ...
    [   41.456431] Bytes b4 ffff880119e79310: 00 00 00 00 d5 03 00 00 b0 fb fe ff 00 00 00 00  ................
    [   41.456431] Object ffff880119e79320: 20 00 00 00 10 00 05 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   ...............
    [   41.456431] Object ffff880119e79330: 14 00 0a 00 01 03 fc 40 45 56 11 22 33 10 00 05  .......@EV."3...
    [   41.456431] Object ffff880119e79340: f0 ff ff ff 88 99 aa bb 00 14 00 0a 00 06 fe fb  ................
                                            ^^ start of batch nlmsg with
                                               nlmsg_len=4294967280
    ...
    [   41.456431] Memory state around the buggy address:
    [   41.456431]  ffff880119e79400: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
    [   41.456431]  ffff880119e79480: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
    [   41.456431] >ffff880119e79500: 00 00 00 00 fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
    [   41.456431]                                ^
    [   41.456431]  ffff880119e79580: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc
    [   41.456431]  ffff880119e79600: fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fc fb fb fb fb fb fb
    [   41.456431] ==================================================================

Fix this with better validation of nlh->nlmsg_len and by setting NFNL_BATCH_FAILURE if any batch message fails length validation.

CAP_NET_ADMIN is required to trigger the bugs.

---
 net/netfilter/nfnetlink.c |   10 ++++++----
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

@@ -326,10 +326,12 @@ replay:
 		nlh = nlmsg_hdr(skb);
 		err = 0;
 
-		if (nlmsg_len(nlh) < sizeof(struct nfgenmsg) ||
-		    skb->len < nlh->nlmsg_len) {
-			err = -EINVAL;
-			goto ack;
+		if (nlh->nlmsg_len < NLMSG_HDRLEN ||
+		    skb->len < nlh->nlmsg_len ||
+		    nlmsg_len(nlh) < sizeof(struct nfgenmsg)) {
+			nfnl_err_reset(&err_list);
+			status |= NFNL_BATCH_FAILURE;
+			goto done;
 		}
 
 		/* Only requests are handled by the kernel */

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

queue-4.4/netfilter-nfnetlink-correctly-validate-length-of-batch-messages.patch