Re: [PATCH] icmp: Fixed bug in raw sockets causing incorrect ICMP SNMP counter values

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Sun Oct 11 2015 - 18:10:57 EST


On Sun, 2015-10-11 at 20:55 +0000, Ben Cartwright-Cox wrote:
> Sending ICMP packets with raw sockets ends up in the SNMP counters
> logging the type as the first byte of the IPv4 header rather than
> the ICMP header (in nearly all cases this is seen as "OutType69".
> This is fixed by adding the IP Header Length to the casting into
> a icmphdr struct.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Cartwright-Cox <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> net/ipv4/raw.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/ipv4/raw.c b/net/ipv4/raw.c
> index 561cd4b..1ad8bae 100644
> --- a/net/ipv4/raw.c
> +++ b/net/ipv4/raw.c
> @@ -409,7 +409,7 @@ static int raw_send_hdrinc(struct sock *sk, struct flowi4 *fl4,
> }
> if (iph->protocol == IPPROTO_ICMP)
> icmp_out_count(net, ((struct icmphdr *)
> - skb_transport_header(skb))->type);
> + skb_transport_header(skb) + iphlen)->type);
>
> err = NF_HOOK(NFPROTO_IPV4, NF_INET_LOCAL_OUT, sk, skb,
> NULL, rt->dst.dev, dst_output_sk);


Hmm... This seems to lack checks against a malicious user ?

The only guarantee you have here is that iphlen < length.

It is not enough.

Make sure you do not access not initialized memory or even non existent
one.



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