From ad8e4b75c8a7bed475d72ce09bf5267188621961 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Martin Murray <murrayma@citi.umich.edu>
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2006 13:02:29 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] [AF_NETLINK]: Fix DoS in netlink_rcv_skb()
From: Martin Murray <murrayma@citi.umich.edu>
Sanity check nlmsg_len during netlink_rcv_skb. An nlmsg_len == 0 can
cause infinite loop in kernel, effectively DoSing machine. Noted by
Matin Murray.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
---
net/netlink/af_netlink.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
index a67f1b44c9a38..bb50c8a9fcad5 100644
--- a/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/af_netlink.c
@@ -1422,7 +1422,7 @@ static int netlink_rcv_skb(struct sk_buff *skb, int (*cb)(struct sk_buff *,
while (skb->len >= nlmsg_total_size(0)) {
nlh = (struct nlmsghdr *) skb->data;
- if (skb->len < nlh->nlmsg_len)
+ if (nlh->nlmsg_len < NLMSG_HDRLEN || skb->len < nlh->nlmsg_len)
return 0;
total_len = min(NLMSG_ALIGN(nlh->nlmsg_len), skb->len);
--
2.30.2