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Re: [PATCH 1/3] netfilter: Fix copy_to_user too small size parametre.

From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
Date: 2012-03-01 10:18:17
Also in: bridge, kernel-janitors, lkml, netfilter-devel

On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 02:46:30PM +0530, santosh nayak wrote:
From: Santosh Nayak <redacted>

While copying to userspace, the size of source is 29byte where as
size parametre is 32 byte.  Its leaking extra-information from
kernel space to user space.
Replace EBT_FUNCTION_MAXNAMELEN by XT_EXTENSION_MAXNAMELEN.
There's no information leak.

Let me clarify this. Have a look at /linux/netfilter/x_tables.h, then
you find:

#define XT_FUNCTION_MAXNAMELEN 30
#define XT_EXTENSION_MAXNAMELEN 29
#define XT_TABLE_MAXNAMELEN 32

For iptables, everything has been 30 bytes, but we stole one
byte to store the revision field for matches/targets.

For ebtables, there's no revision field and the length of the
table name is different.

But linux/netfilter/in ebtables.h, you'll find:

#define EBT_TABLE_MAXNAMELEN 32
#define EBT_CHAIN_MAXNAMELEN EBT_TABLE_MAXNAMELEN
#define EBT_FUNCTION_MAXNAMELEN EBT_TABLE_MAXNAMELEN

Note that someone decided to use 32 bytes for the ebtables
tables/match/target name instead of 30 bytes in iptables.

Yes, it sucks a bit we have to live with these interfaces until
we have some netlink interface for all these things.
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
Signed-off-by: Santosh Nayak <redacted>
---
 net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c |    6 +++---
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c b/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c
index 5864cc4..f3fcbd9 100644
--- a/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c
+++ b/net/bridge/netfilter/ebtables.c
@@ -1335,7 +1335,7 @@ static inline int ebt_make_matchname(const struct ebt_entry_match *m,
     const char *base, char __user *ubase)
 {
 	char __user *hlp = ubase + ((char *)m - base);
-	if (copy_to_user(hlp, m->u.match->name, EBT_FUNCTION_MAXNAMELEN))
+	if (copy_to_user(hlp, m->u.match->name, XT_EXTENSION_MAXNAMELEN))
 		return -EFAULT;
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -1344,7 +1344,7 @@ static inline int ebt_make_watchername(const struct ebt_entry_watcher *w,
     const char *base, char __user *ubase)
 {
 	char __user *hlp = ubase + ((char *)w - base);
-	if (copy_to_user(hlp , w->u.watcher->name, EBT_FUNCTION_MAXNAMELEN))
+	if (copy_to_user(hlp , w->u.watcher->name, XT_EXTENSION_MAXNAMELEN))
 		return -EFAULT;
 	return 0;
 }
@@ -1368,7 +1368,7 @@ ebt_make_names(struct ebt_entry *e, const char *base, char __user *ubase)
 	ret = EBT_WATCHER_ITERATE(e, ebt_make_watchername, base, ubase);
 	if (ret != 0)
 		return ret;
-	if (copy_to_user(hlp, t->u.target->name, EBT_FUNCTION_MAXNAMELEN))
+	if (copy_to_user(hlp, t->u.target->name, XT_EXTENSION_MAXNAMELEN))
 		return -EFAULT;
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
1.7.4.4

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