From: Hannes Frederic Sowa Subject: net: add validation for the socket syscall protocol argument Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 17:17:49 +0100 Origin: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/391482 郭永刚 reported that one could simply crash the kernel as root by using a simple program: int socket_fd; struct sockaddr_in addr; addr.sin_port = 0; addr.sin_addr.s_addr = INADDR_ANY; addr.sin_family = 10; socket_fd = socket(10,3,0x40000000); connect(socket_fd , &addr,16); AF_INET, AF_INET6 sockets actually only support 8-bit protocol identifiers. inet_sock's skc_protocol field thus is sized accordingly, thus larger protocol identifiers simply cut off the higher bits and store a zero in the protocol fields. This could lead to e.g. NULL function pointer because as a result of the cut off inet_num is zero and we call down to inet_autobind, which is NULL for raw sockets. kernel: Call Trace: kernel: [] ? inet_autobind+0x2e/0x70 kernel: [] inet_dgram_connect+0x54/0x80 kernel: [] SYSC_connect+0xd9/0x110 kernel: [] ? ptrace_notify+0x5b/0x80 kernel: [] ? syscall_trace_enter_phase2+0x108/0x200 kernel: [] SyS_connect+0xe/0x10 kernel: [] tracesys_phase2+0x84/0x89 I found no particular commit which introduced this problem. CVE: CVE-2015-8543 Reported-by: 郭永刚 Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa --- net/ipv4/af_inet.c | 3 +++ net/ipv6/af_inet6.c | 3 +++ net/socket.c | 3 +++ 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+) --- a/net/ipv4/af_inet.c +++ b/net/ipv4/af_inet.c @@ -261,6 +261,9 @@ static int inet_create(struct net *net, int try_loading_module = 0; int err; + if (protocol >= IPPROTO_MAX) + return -EINVAL; + sock->state = SS_UNCONNECTED; /* Look for the requested type/protocol pair. */ --- a/net/ipv6/af_inet6.c +++ b/net/ipv6/af_inet6.c @@ -109,6 +109,9 @@ static int inet6_create(struct net *net, int try_loading_module = 0; int err; + if (protocol >= IPPROTO_MAX) + return -EINVAL; + /* Look for the requested type/protocol pair. */ lookup_protocol: err = -ESOCKTNOSUPPORT; --- a/net/socket.c +++ b/net/socket.c @@ -1105,6 +1105,9 @@ int __sock_create(struct net *net, int f return -EAFNOSUPPORT; if (type < 0 || type >= SOCK_MAX) return -EINVAL; + /* upper bound should be tested by per-protocol .create callbacks */ + if (protocol < 0) + return -EINVAL; /* Compatibility.