From 1661bf364ae9c506bc8795fef70d1532931be1e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dan Carpenter Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 00:27:20 +0300 Subject: net: heap overflow in __audit_sockaddr() We need to cap ->msg_namelen or it leads to a buffer overflow when we to the memcpy() in __audit_sockaddr(). It requires CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL to exploit this bug. The call tree is: ___sys_recvmsg() move_addr_to_user() audit_sockaddr() __audit_sockaddr() Reported-by: Jüri Aedla Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/compat.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'net/compat.c') diff --git a/net/compat.c b/net/compat.c index f0a1ba6c8086..89032580bd1d 100644 --- a/net/compat.c +++ b/net/compat.c @@ -71,6 +71,8 @@ int get_compat_msghdr(struct msghdr *kmsg, struct compat_msghdr __user *umsg) __get_user(kmsg->msg_controllen, &umsg->msg_controllen) || __get_user(kmsg->msg_flags, &umsg->msg_flags)) return -EFAULT; + if (kmsg->msg_namelen > sizeof(struct sockaddr_storage)) + return -EINVAL; kmsg->msg_name = compat_ptr(tmp1); kmsg->msg_iov = compat_ptr(tmp2); kmsg->msg_control = compat_ptr(tmp3); -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g7522