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authorJean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>2007-04-05 02:52:46 -0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2007-04-05 02:52:46 -0400
commit75559c167bddc1254db5bcff032ad5eed8bd6f4a (patch)
tree852cd5b5c86a63a83e5e22d98d44bd83736339b3 /net/appletalk
parent58e949139014a852a83b5ef071136b1f50c86ad1 (diff)
[APPLETALK]: Fix a remotely triggerable crash
When we receive an AppleTalk frame shorter than what its header says, we still attempt to verify its checksum, and trip on the BUG_ON() at the end of function atalk_sum_skb() because of the length mismatch. This has security implications because this can be triggered by simply sending a specially crafted ethernet frame to a target victim, effectively crashing that host. Thus this qualifies, I think, as a remote DoS. Here is the frame I used to trigger the crash, in npg format: <Appletalk Killer> { # Ethernet header ----- XX XX XX XX XX XX # Destination MAC 00 00 00 00 00 00 # Source MAC 00 1D # Length # LLC header ----- AA AA 03 08 00 07 80 9B # Appletalk # Appletalk header ----- 00 1B # Packet length (invalid) 00 01 # Fake checksum 00 00 00 00 # Destination and source networks 00 00 00 00 # Destination and source nodes and ports # Payload ----- 0C 0D 0E 0F 10 11 12 13 14 } The destination MAC address must be set to those of the victim. The severity is mitigated by two requirements: * The target host must have the appletalk kernel module loaded. I suspect this isn't so frequent. * AppleTalk frames are non-IP, thus I guess they can only travel on local networks. I am no network expert though, maybe it is possible to somehow encapsulate AppleTalk packets over IP. The bug has been reported back in June 2004: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2979 But it wasn't investigated, and was closed in July 2006 as both reporters had vanished meanwhile. This code was new in kernel 2.6.0-test5: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/tglx/history.git;a=commitdiff;h=7ab442d7e0a76402c12553ee256f756097cae2d2 And not modified since then, so we can assume that vanilla kernels 2.6.0-test5 and later, and distribution kernels based thereon, are affected. Note that I still do not know for sure what triggered the bug in the real-world cases. The frame could have been corrupted by the kernel if we have a bug hiding somewhere. But more likely, we are receiving the faulty frame from the network. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/appletalk')
-rw-r--r--net/appletalk/ddp.c7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/appletalk/ddp.c b/net/appletalk/ddp.c
index 113c175f1715..c8b7dc2c3257 100644
--- a/net/appletalk/ddp.c
+++ b/net/appletalk/ddp.c
@@ -1417,10 +1417,13 @@ static int atalk_rcv(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev,
1417 /* 1417 /*
1418 * Size check to see if ddp->deh_len was crap 1418 * Size check to see if ddp->deh_len was crap
1419 * (Otherwise we'll detonate most spectacularly 1419 * (Otherwise we'll detonate most spectacularly
1420 * in the middle of recvmsg()). 1420 * in the middle of atalk_checksum() or recvmsg()).
1421 */ 1421 */
1422 if (skb->len < sizeof(*ddp)) 1422 if (skb->len < sizeof(*ddp) || skb->len < (len_hops & 1023)) {
1423 pr_debug("AppleTalk: dropping corrupted frame (deh_len=%u, "
1424 "skb->len=%u)\n", len_hops & 1023, skb->len);
1423 goto freeit; 1425 goto freeit;
1426 }
1424 1427
1425 /* 1428 /*
1426 * Any checksums. Note we don't do htons() on this == is assumed to be 1429 * Any checksums. Note we don't do htons() on this == is assumed to be