Re: [PATCH] netlink: don't compare the nul-termination in nla_strcmp
From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Date: 2014-03-31 19:25:54
On 03/31/14 at 05:34pm, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
nla_strcmp compares the string length plus one, so it's implicitly including the nul-termination in the comparison. int nla_strcmp(const struct nlattr *nla, const char *str) { int len = strlen(str) + 1; ... d = memcmp(nla_data(nla), str, len); However, if NLA_STRING is used, userspace can send us a string without the nul-termination. This is a problem since the string comparison will not match as the last byte may be not the nul-termination. Fix this by skipping the comparison of the nul-termination if the attribute data is nul-terminated. Suggested by Thomas Graf. Cc: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> --- lib/nlattr.c | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)diff --git a/lib/nlattr.c b/lib/nlattr.c index 18eca78..53beba5 100644 --- a/lib/nlattr.c +++ b/lib/nlattr.c@@ -303,9 +303,15 @@ int nla_memcmp(const struct nlattr *nla, const void *data, */ int nla_strcmp(const struct nlattr *nla, const char *str) { - int len = strlen(str) + 1; - int d = nla_len(nla) - len; + int len = strlen(str); + char *buf = nla_data(nla); + int attrlen = nla_len(nla); + int d; + if (buf[attrlen - 1] == '\0') + attrlen--;
Perhaps check for attrlen > 0? It should never happen if the attribute has been validated against NLA_STRING or NLA_NUL_STRING but not all attributes get validated.