[PATCH] bridge: netfilter: fix information leak

From: Vasiliy Kulikov
Date: Mon Feb 14 2011 - 05:55:24 EST


Struct tmp is copied from userspace. It is not checked whether the "name"
field is NULL terminated. This may lead to buffer overflow and passing
contents of kernel stack as a module name to try_then_request_module() and,
consequently, to modprobe commandline. It would be seen by all userspace
processes.

Signed-off-by: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Compile tested.

net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c | 2 ++
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c b/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c
index 5f1825d..1ea820b 100644
--- a/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c
+++ b/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c
@@ -1107,6 +1107,8 @@ static int do_replace(struct net *net, const void __user *user,
if (tmp.num_counters >= INT_MAX / sizeof(struct ebt_counter))
return -ENOMEM;

+ tmp.name[sizeof(tmp.name)-1] = 0;
+
countersize = COUNTER_OFFSET(tmp.nentries) * nr_cpu_ids;
newinfo = vmalloc(sizeof(*newinfo) + countersize);
if (!newinfo)
--
1.7.0.4

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