[PATCH] sctp: diag: fix uninitialized stack leak via INET_DIAG_LOCALS/PEERS
From: MingXuan <hidden>
Date: 2026-07-15 03:35:46
Also in:
linux-sctp, lkml, stable
Subsystem:
networking [general], sctp protocol, the rest · Maintainers:
"David S. Miller", Eric Dumazet, Jakub Kicinski, Paolo Abeni, Marcelo Ricardo Leitner, Xin Long, Linus Torvalds
inet_diag_msg_sctpladdrs_fill() copies sizeof(union sctp_addr) (28 bytes,
the size of sockaddr_in6) from each sctp_sockaddr_entry.a into the netlink
INET_DIAG_LOCALS attribute and then only zeroes the bytes from offset 28 to
sizeof(sockaddr_storage). The same pattern is used by
inet_diag_msg_sctpaddrs_fill() for INET_DIAG_PEERS.
The IPv4 address-filling helpers sctp_v4_from_addr_param() and
sctp_v4_from_skb() only initialize the sockaddr_in portion (16 bytes) of the
union sctp_addr; the trailing 12 bytes (offset 16..27, the sockaddr_in6-only
region) are left uninitialized. Those bytes are propagated verbatim through
sctp_add_bind_addr() (which copies sizeof(union sctp_addr)=28 bytes) and then
copied straight to userspace by the diag fill functions, leaking 12 bytes of
kernel stack residue per local/peer address to any process that can issue a
SOCK_DIAG_BY_FAMILY dump for IPPROTO_SCTP.
Fix it by computing the actually-initialized length of the address from its
sa_family (struct sockaddr_in for AF_INET, the whole union otherwise) and
copying only that many bytes into an already-zeroed sockaddr_storage slot, so
the uninitialized tail is never read and never reaches userspace.
Fixes: 8f840e47f190cbe61a96945c13e9551048d42cef ("sctp: add the sctp_diag.c file")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: MingXuan <redacted>
---
net/sctp/diag.c | 17 ++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/sctp/diag.c b/net/sctp/diag.c
index d758f5c3e06e..12557e924cc2 100644
--- a/net/sctp/diag.c
+++ b/net/sctp/diag.c@@ -85,8 +85,12 @@ static int inet_diag_msg_sctpladdrs_fill(struct sk_buff *skb, info = nla_data(attr); rcu_read_lock(); list_for_each_entry_rcu(laddr, address_list, list) { - memcpy(info, &laddr->a, sizeof(laddr->a)); - memset(info + sizeof(laddr->a), 0, addrlen - sizeof(laddr->a)); + size_t addr_len = laddr->a.sa.sa_family == AF_INET ? + sizeof(struct sockaddr_in) : + sizeof(struct sockaddr_in6); + + memset(info, 0, addrlen); + memcpy(info, &laddr->a, addr_len); info += addrlen; if (!--addrcnt)
@@ -113,9 +117,12 @@ static int inet_diag_msg_sctpaddrs_fill(struct sk_buff *skb, info = nla_data(attr); list_for_each_entry(from, &asoc->peer.transport_addr_list, transports) { - memcpy(info, &from->ipaddr, sizeof(from->ipaddr)); - memset(info + sizeof(from->ipaddr), 0, - addrlen - sizeof(from->ipaddr)); + size_t addr_len = from->ipaddr.sa.sa_family == AF_INET ? + sizeof(struct sockaddr_in) : + sizeof(struct sockaddr_in6); + + memset(info, 0, addrlen); + memcpy(info, &from->ipaddr, addr_len); info += addrlen; }
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2.50.1 (Apple Git-155)