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| author | Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com> | 2006-08-22 20:50:39 +0200 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2006-08-22 21:52:23 +0200 |
| commit | c164a9ba0a8870c5c9d353f63085319931d69f23 (patch) | |
| tree | 7e315a50008d0310dd5572a62baef34ddba89988 /net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c | |
| parent | Merge gregkh@master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm (diff) | |
| download | linux-c164a9ba0a8870c5c9d353f63085319931d69f23.tar.xz linux-c164a9ba0a8870c5c9d353f63085319931d69f23.zip | |
Fix sctp privilege elevation (CVE-2006-3745)
sctp_make_abort_user() now takes the msg_len along with the msg
so that we don't have to recalculate the bytes in iovec.
It also uses memcpy_fromiovec() so that we don't go beyond the
length allocated.
It is good to have this fix even if verify_iovec() is fixed to
return error on overflow.
Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c | 20 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c b/net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c index ead3f1b0ea3d..5b5ae7958322 100644 --- a/net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c +++ b/net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c @@ -4031,18 +4031,12 @@ sctp_disposition_t sctp_sf_do_9_1_prm_abort( * from its upper layer, but retransmits data to the far end * if necessary to fill gaps. */ - struct msghdr *msg = arg; - struct sctp_chunk *abort; + struct sctp_chunk *abort = arg; sctp_disposition_t retval; retval = SCTP_DISPOSITION_CONSUME; - /* Generate ABORT chunk to send the peer. */ - abort = sctp_make_abort_user(asoc, NULL, msg); - if (!abort) - retval = SCTP_DISPOSITION_NOMEM; - else - sctp_add_cmd_sf(commands, SCTP_CMD_REPLY, SCTP_CHUNK(abort)); + sctp_add_cmd_sf(commands, SCTP_CMD_REPLY, SCTP_CHUNK(abort)); /* Even if we can't send the ABORT due to low memory delete the * TCB. This is a departure from our typical NOMEM handling. @@ -4166,8 +4160,7 @@ sctp_disposition_t sctp_sf_cookie_wait_prm_abort( void *arg, sctp_cmd_seq_t *commands) { - struct msghdr *msg = arg; - struct sctp_chunk *abort; + struct sctp_chunk *abort = arg; sctp_disposition_t retval; /* Stop T1-init timer */ @@ -4175,12 +4168,7 @@ sctp_disposition_t sctp_sf_cookie_wait_prm_abort( SCTP_TO(SCTP_EVENT_TIMEOUT_T1_INIT)); retval = SCTP_DISPOSITION_CONSUME; - /* Generate ABORT chunk to send the peer */ - abort = sctp_make_abort_user(asoc, NULL, msg); - if (!abort) - retval = SCTP_DISPOSITION_NOMEM; - else - sctp_add_cmd_sf(commands, SCTP_CMD_REPLY, SCTP_CHUNK(abort)); + sctp_add_cmd_sf(commands, SCTP_CMD_REPLY, SCTP_CHUNK(abort)); sctp_add_cmd_sf(commands, SCTP_CMD_NEW_STATE, SCTP_STATE(SCTP_STATE_CLOSED)); |