pep_get_sb() doesn't consider that pskb_may_pull() might have relocated
the skb data, and continue to access the older pointer, causing UAF.
Reproduced under KASAN:
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in pep_get_sb+0x234/0x3b0
Read of size 1 at addr ff11000105510f50 by task repro/157
pep_get_sb+0x234/0x3b0
pipe_handler_do_rcv+0x5f7/0xa10
pep_do_rcv+0x203/0x410
__sk_receive_skb+0x471/0x4a0
phonet_rcv+0x5b3/0x6c0
__netif_receive_skb+0xcc/0x1d0
Refetch the header with skb_header_pointer() after pskb_may_pull(), so
the possibly stale pointer is no longer dereferenced. There are better
ways to solve this, but, this is the less instrusive one.
Fixes: 9641458d3ec4 ("Phonet: Pipe End Point for Phonet Pipes protocol")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@debian.org>
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This showed up in sashiko report, when I've sent my other patchset
https://lore.kernel.org/all/20260720-getsockopt_phase4-v2-0-8a08fcfa0d72@debian.org/ (local)
---
net/phonet/pep.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/phonet/pep.c b/net/phonet/pep.c
index 7069271393933..31b29e3ca7bc6 100644
--- a/net/phonet/pep.c
+++ b/net/phonet/pep.c
@@ -55,6 +55,8 @@ static unsigned char *pep_get_sb(struct sk_buff *skb, u8 *ptype, u8 *plen,
ph = skb_header_pointer(skb, 0, 2, &h);
if (ph == NULL || ph->sb_len < 2 || !pskb_may_pull(skb, ph->sb_len))
return NULL;
+ /* pskb_may_pull() may have reallocated the head; refetch ph. */
+ ph = skb_header_pointer(skb, 0, 2, &h);
ph->sb_len -= 2;
*ptype = ph->sb_type;
*plen = ph->sb_len;
---
base-commit: 1c975de3343cdef506f2eecc833cc1f14b0401c4
change-id: 20260720-phonet_get_sb_uaf-8745e9d9d62c
Best regards,
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Breno Leitao [off-list ref]